Hannibal of Carthage (modern Tunisia), a great military strategist, led elephants through the Alps to defeat Rome.

Greg Jenner is joined in ancient North Africa by classicist Professor Josephine Quinn and comedian Darren Harriott to learn ...

Many suggest that Africans joined the Trojan War under Memnon’s leadership, but what evidence truly backs this claim?

Every so often, a pandemic emerges that dramatically alters human society. The Black Death (1347 - 1351) was one; the Spanish flu of 1918 was another. Now there’s COVID-19. Archaeologists have long ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.