Curated category
Countries in Africa
- TanzaniaA 1.8-million-year-old stone chopping tool sits on display at the British Museum, recovered from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
- AlgeriaStone artifacts dating to approximately 1.8 million years old were discovered at Ain Hanech in northern Algeria, representing the oldest archaeological…
- DjiboutiCut stones dated about 3 million years old have been collected in the area of Lake Abbe. In the Gobaad plain, between Dikhil and Lake Abbe, the remains of…
- MauritiusIn 1507, Portuguese sailors blown off course from their route to India via the Mozambique channel landed on an uninhabited island.
- Burkina FasoArchaeological excavations in 1973 uncovered scrapers, chisels, and arrowheads dating back to the period between 14,000 BC and 5,000 BC.
- TunisiaThe 9th century BC marked the founding of Carthage by Phoenician settlers from Tyre, a city now located in modern-day Lebanon.
- SenegalIn 1444, the Portuguese explorer Dinis Dias stepped onto Gorée Island, marking the first European contact with what is now Senegal.
- KenyaIn 1984, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey and his assistant Kamoya Kimeu uncovered the Turkana Boy fossil at Lake Turkana.
- Democratic Republic of the CongoThe Congo rainforest stretches across the central basin of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, covering most of the country's vast territory.
- SudanSūdan was not merely a scribe who recorded history from a safe distance but a man who stood shoulder to shoulder with Maharaja Suraj Mal during the most…
- EthiopiaIn the Awash Valley of the Afar Region, a fossil known as Dinkinesh lies preserved. This specimen, scientifically named Australopithecus afarensis, was…
- SpainArchaeological research at Atapuerca indicates the Iberian Peninsula was populated by hominids 1.3 million years ago. Modern humans first arrived in Iberia…
- Ivory CoastPortuguese merchant-explorers in the 15th and 16th centuries divided the west coast of Africa into four regions based on available resources.
- South AfricaArchaeologists have recovered extensive fossil remains from a series of caves in Gauteng Province. The area, known as the Cradle of Humankind, is a UNESCO…
- NigeriaOn the 8th of January 1897, a British journalist named Flora Shaw coined the name Nigeria for the territory along the Niger River.
- EgyptThe Nile River flows through a landscape that has supported human life for over ten thousand years. Evidence of rock carvings along the banks and in…