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Sacred Africa : ancient arts of sub-Saharan Africa at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts features fifty works from the collections of the Cirque du Soleil, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and McGill University's Redpath Museum. The Redpath Museum is the ...
KTVZ

Ancient DNA sheds light on origins of 7,000-year-old Saharan mummies

(CNN) — Today, the view from the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya is of endless sandy dunes and barren rock, but 7,000 years ago, this region of the Sahara Desert was a far lusher, ...
Nature

Rare ancient DNA from Sahara opens a window on the region’s verdant past

Sequencing of 7,000-year-old human genomes from when the Sahara Desert was green suggest that pastoralism spread through cultural exchange, not large-scale migration. Gazing at an image of the vast, ...
BBC

Africa's iconic architecture in 12 buildings

While the pyramids of Egypt are recognised around the world, much of Africa's architecture remains unknown - something architects Adil Dalbai and Livingstone Mukasa hope to change. They are part of ...
Next City

Colonialism Didn’t Just Steal Africa’s Art. It Took Africa’s Architecture, Too.

Itohan I. Osayimwese is the author of “Africa's Buildings: Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage.” (Photo by Christian Scully / Design Imaging Studios) This is your first of three ...