The museum's reopening serves as a symbolic display of stability ahead of planned elections in 2026, one expert told NBC News.

Over the years people have become aware about Kalash who claim Greek ancestry, but in South Asia there are other tribes ...

A new book by Montasser Thabet takes readers on a journey through time to understand how the ancient Egyptians lived, .

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

The Benin Bronzes, taken from what is now Nigeria, have become a symbol in the effort to return looted artifacts to their ...

Benin City has grown from the historic Kingdom of Benin into a vibrant metropolis with the new Museum of West African Art.

Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the ...

In the latest twist in human evolution, scientists have discovered that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belonged to a previously unknown ancient relative. Dated to around 3.4 million years ago, ...

When people think of pyramids, Egypt instantly comes to mind, but few know that Sudan actually has more pyramids than Egypt. In this video, we journey deep into northern Sudan to uncover the forgotten ...

The domestic cat may be a far more recent arrival to Europe than previously thought, arriving roughly 2000 years ago and not because of the Paleolithic expansion of Near East farmers. The findings ...

Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belongs to a little-known, recently named ancient human relative who lived alongside the species of the famous Lucy, scientists ...

Civil rights organizer and activist Audley “Queen Mother” Moore looks on at the airport in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1977, during one of several trips the Louisiana native made linking anti-colonialism to ...