Tassili n’Ajjer’s Painted World Still Defies the Desert
High on the Tassili n’Ajjer plateau in southeastern Algeria, the Sahara preserves one of the largest painted archives on Earth. More than 15,000 prehistoric images, spread across a maze of…
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Ancient Artworks: 8 Masterpieces That Still Speak to Us
Ancient art is not a single style or a single story. It includes royal portraits, objects made for the dead, images of gods, records of war, and works whose original…
Archeological Discovery Sheds Rare Light on the Ancient Kingdom of Aksum
A rare archeological discovery offers scholars unprecedented details on Aksum’s lost ancient kingdom, one of Africa’s most influential ancient civilizations. Archeological excavations have revealed the ancient remnants of an ancient…
Global Reset 12,800 Years Ago: Evidence of Mass Extinction by Asteroid?
Some 12,8000 years ago, when relatively developed ancient cultures already populated the Earth, our planet went through a kind of “global reset” as an asteroid smashed into the Earth, causing…
Modern-day Africans Conserve DNA from Unknown Extinct Human Species
According to a study published in Genome Biology, modern-day Africans conserve DNA from an unknown and extinct human species. With help from artificial intelligence, the study demonstrated that African populations…