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The Songhai Empire (aka Songhay, c. 1460 - c. 1591) covered what is today southern Mauritania and Mali. It replaced the Mali Empire (1240-1645) as the most important state in West Africa. Originating as a smaller kingdom along the eastern...

A Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive-bomber, captured in North Africa in 1941. (Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago).

A photograph of a British Grant tank driver in the North Africa Campaign during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

The First Battle of El Alamein (1-27 July 1942) was a series of encounters during the Second World War (1939-1945) in Egypt between Allied and Axis forces. The battle, focussed around the El Alamein defensive line, ended without a decisive...

The Ghana Empire flourished in West Africa from at least the 6th to 13th century. Not connected geographically to the modern state of Ghana, the Ghana Empire was located in the western Sudan savannah region (modern southern Mauritania and...

Discover the mysterious, 1,300-year-old treasures of the Jordanian desert. We explore the trending visuals of Quseir Amra and the secrets hidden within its ancient limestone walls. See "forbidden" art that was viral a millennium ago—images...

Ancient Safaitic inscriptions in the Jordan desert and contemporary paintings by the artist Rawan Al Adwan.

The only collection of mediaeval Christian paintings from the Nile Valley in Europe, the Faras Gallery is to be re-opened at the National Museum in Warsaw. Culture.pl’s camera looks behind the scenes of the exhibition’s formation, to the...

Gertrude Bell was a global adventurer, linguist, spy, archaeologist, and much more. She was responsible for defining the borders of modern-day Iraq, and founded the country's first museum. However, her own family home in Redcar has fallen...

Thousands of years ago, Persians created an ingenious system to provide water across their arid landscape. They tapped aquifers at the heads of valleys and designed tunnels that utilized gravity to send the water to settlements. It's now...