Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age.

On a low rise in southeastern Turkey, a ring of carved stone pillars has forced archaeologists to rethink how civilization ...

The fall of the world’s earliest cities has long looked like a riddle of vanished peoples and abandoned streets. A growing ...

Chapurukha Kusimba was a young boy in Kenya in the 1960s just as many African nations were attaining independence from western European countries. The power and success of African nationalists ...

New research challenges the conventional theory that the transition from foraging to farming drove the development of complex, hierarchical societies by creating agricultural surplus in areas of ...

Dec. 13 (UPI) --Forty-two pieces of African art covering five millennia will be on display starting Tuesday at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. "The African Origin of Civilization: ...

Genetic analyses back up what Swahili oral tradition has long held about ancestry of people from eastern Africa — that their ancestors are from... Chapurukha Kusimba was a young boy in Kenya in the ...