African buildings: Hathor temple at Naqa (modern Sudan), ca. 10 AD African buildings in stone In the first centuries AD, African architects kept building more stone buildings, as trade continued to increase, [...]
African architecture: the pyramids at Giza, in Egypt, about 2500 BC First African buildings Africa was probably the place where people first built any kind of building, because people lived [...]
History of honey: Chimpanzee smashing a beehive to get honey When did people start to eat honey? Bees first began to make honey about 200 million years ago, long before [...]
The religious faith of Islam, as it was practiced between about 650 and 1500 AD, was closely related to Judaism and Christianity. Like Jews and Christians, Muslims believed that there was only one God, [...]
A Phoenician moon goddess The goddess Tanit was a goddess of the moon The goddess Tanit came to Africa from her home in West Asia with the Phoenicians, about 800 BC. [...]
Eto: yams before they are cooked What is Eto made of? Eto is a kind of food that people ate in West Africa. You cooked yams until they were soft, [...]
Early African food: Wheat bread African food before farming Before people started farming, African hunters and gatherers ate mainly fruit (especially figs), with some meat and fish and seafood and [...]
Early African clothing: Masai leather cape with glass trade beads from India, from north-eastern Africa (ca. 1000 AD) What did early African people wear ? Africa's a big place, so [...]
Early African board games: a simple Mancala game scratched into the dirt What were the first games? People have played games in Africa since before they were really even people, [...]
Early Khoisan art from Blombos Cave, South Africa (ca. 80,000 BC) South Africans get isolated The people who became the Khoisan started to split off from other humans about 200,000 [...]
