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Africa holds the deepest chapters of the human story. Across its deserts, forests, savannas, mountains, and coasts lie traces of lives stretching from the earliest stone tools to ancient cities, kingdoms, and networks that connected distant worlds. Here, our ancestors first shaped stone, communities transformed landscapes, and generations of artists, craftspeople, farmers, herders, merchants, and rulers left their marks upon the continent.
Yet there is no single African past. Its archaeology is a mosaic of countless histories—of innovation and movement, adaptation and exchange, continuity and transformation. Follow the objects, places, and traces they left behind, and explore a continent whose past is as vast, varied, and enduring as Africa itself.
A brilliant blue material, an ancient Nubian kingdom, and an archaeological mystery more than a century in the making. From Kerma’s excavations to the discovery of a faience workshop at Sanam, we investigate how the peoples of ancient Nubia made, transformed, and gave meaning to one of the Nile Valley’s most remarkable materials.
From the rainforests of New Guinea to plantations across the world, the banana's story is one of remarkable transformations, ancient migrations, and an enduring partnership with humanity. Discover how archaeology, genetics, and botany are piecing together the origins of one of the world's most familiar fruits.
A port is more than a possession. Adulis joined anchorages, roads, labour and institutions into the coastal system that made Aksumite power possible.
