This stunning seaside city is the largest city on the Mediterranean coast and once stood as Egypt's capital city for almost a ...

Traveling to Ethiopia can be an experience in two distinct worlds. There’s Addis Ababa, with its towering construction cranes ...

The ancient Saharan city of Chinguetti ... Chinguetti is one of four UNESCO World Heritage sites in Mauritania, a West African nation where only 0.5 per cent of land is considered farmable.

submerging much of the city. Historical records from the time describe a devastating natural disaster that also ravaged Alexandria, one of the greatest intellectual centers of the ancient world ...

Unlike the nearby ancient city of Salamis whose Roman ruins stand to this day (not to be confused with the Island of Salamis just west of Athens), few traces of the ancient site now known as ...

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

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 ...

For a 40-cent entrance fee, the National Museum of Ethiopia has exhibitions on African art history ... lined neighborhoods. Ancient Lalibela: 24 hours in the sacred city We took a short, one ...