Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry.

DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals ...

hunter-gatherers might have island-hopped their way to Africa across the Mediterranean. The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia and ...

Archaeological fieldwork in Morocco has uncovered the earliest known farming society from a previously unexplored period of ...

his scholarship profoundly influenced African and European learning through intellectual exchanges along trade routes, underscoring the interconnected medieval world.

Analysis - The Neolithic period began in southwest Asia around 12,000 years ago. It marked a major shift in human history as societies transitioned from hunting and gathering to farming. This sparked ...

Office: Blair 211 Email: [[jwpope]] Regional Areas of Research: Ancient to Modern Africa, Middle East and Indian Ocean Thematic Areas of Research: African American, Comparative and Transnational, ...

Medieval Africa, the Americas, and the Khanates of Central Asia. It includes 350 high-quality images and maps, chronologies, and learning questions to help guide student learning. Its digital nature ...

The ancient Saharan city of Chinguetti ... Its dry stone and mud mortar homes, mosques and libraries store some of West Africa’s oldest Quranic texts and manuscripts, covering topics ranging ...