A gold rush has broken out in the Sahara in recent years. Thousands of young Africans are digging in the sea of sand with ...
Wildfires in South Korea destroyed nearly half of more than 30 structures at an ancient temple. The wind-driven blazes ...
In ancient Greece, the trial of Socrates in 399 BC before the Athenian Court was a travesty. Equal parts candid, compelling and tragic.The dramatic twists and turns of a seventy-year-old Socrates ...
Known as “the blind couple from Mali," the duo of Amadou Bagayoko, who lost his vision at age 16, and Mariam Doumbia, who ...
One of Griaule’s most famous (and controversial) claims was our ostensible knowledge of Sirius B, the companion star to ...
Abubakarr Koma is keeping alive the centuries-old art of Gara tie-dying, a vibrant tradition that tells stories through ...
The National Theatre came alive on Saturday night as Chief Moomen’s latest stage production, ‘Mansa Musa and a Trial of Lost ...
Mansa Musa, emperor of the Mali Empire, is widely regarded as the richest man in history. He was exceptionally wealthy to an extent that historians have struggled to quantify it accurately. Though the ...
For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...
Djenné mosque, Mali. Author - Dario Lorenzetti. In Mali there are very many objects of culture and history, which are carefully protected by the world organization. For example, the ancient town of ...
Candidates for exploration include regions with specific geological characteristics, such as ancient rock systems, active fault lines, or areas where serpentinization (a chemical process that releases ...