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Kunta Kinteh - The African Island at the Heart of the Slave Trade
... slave trade. One island in particular stood out as the central port and a strategic spot where ships arrived for ... The Gambia River runs the entire length of the small Republic of the Gambia . Since it flows out into the Atlantic ... Torture, and Death Sarah Forbes Bonetta: Orphan, Slave, African Princess and Queen Victoria’s Goddaughter! The ...
Aleksa Vučković - 21/12/2021 - 14:00
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Human Evolution: Secrets of Early Ancestors Could Be Unlocked by African Rainforests
Think of African rainforests and the picture is inevitably one of a ... Scerri, Author provided An ancient hominin tooth from Central Africa indicates that our hominin ancestors were ... dating to around 22,000 years ago from the Democratic Republic of Congo and 12,000 years ago in southern Nigeria ...
ancient-origins - 07/09/2018 - 22:56
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Mixture and Migration Brought Food Production to Sub-Saharan Africa
... Africa, including the first genomes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Botswana, and Uganda. A new ... in the south, the Hazda in the east and the Mbuti of the central African rainforest. However, the present study shows that, ...
ancient-origins - 15/06/2020 - 18:59
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Zombies and Voodoo: The Living Dead Religion of Modern Haiti
... get their names and attributes from traditional West and Central African divinities, and they are also equated with certain ... the World of Zombies and Voodoo Haiti , the first black republic, is distinguished by colonialism, poverty, zombies, ...
Phoenix Vald - 06/12/2021 - 13:58
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Global Guides Animate the Past in Penn Museum’s New Galleries
... new 'Global Guides’ from Africa, Mexico, and Central America. Our technology driven world allows us ... Global Guides Situated in cold glass museum cases, wooden African Shaman’s masks and jade Aztec daggers from ancient ... for Clay Katongo who was born and lived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for more than 30 years. As a ...
ashley cowie - 13/11/2019 - 22:57
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Hidden in History, Exposed to Modern Epidemics, the Lost Tribe of Ba’Aka Pygmies May Face Extinction
... forests of darkest Africa close to the Equator, in the Central African Republic, the Ba’Aka tribe – formerly known as pygmies - ...
Willem Daffue - 10/09/2018 - 17:27
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Rare Coin Celebrating Caesar’s Assassination Might Fetch £5 Million
... story that is apparently worth £5 million. Will Ancient African Coin Found in Australia 'Change Everything'? Rare ... to Fathom Who Hid Them 23 Punctures Deflated the Roman Republic The Roman Republic was founded in 480 BC and ... held in the collection of the Deutsche Bundesbank , the central bank of the Federal Republic of Germany. Fall 2020: ...
ashley cowie - 10/10/2020 - 17:45
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Hunter Gatherer Society Has a Time-Tested, Secret Method to Traverse the Rainforest
... that rainforest-dwelling Mbendjele BaYaka people from the Republic of Congo point to out-of-sight targets with high ... Top Image: Example of a Bayaka woman hunting in southern Central African Republic in 2014. Source: Max Chiswick/ CC BY SA 4.0 ...
ancient-origins - 24/07/2019 - 00:19
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The Kingdom of Hayti and the Slave that Pronounced Himself King
... a Best Picture Academy Award, takes place in the secret African Kingdom of Wakanda. By Marlene Daut / The ... General Alexandre Pétion governed a completely separate republic in the southern and southwestern part of the ... both the King of Hayti and Black Panther, have always been central to these visions. King Henry was even depicted as a ...
ancient-origins - 04/06/2019 - 02:00
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Polish Legionnaires Fighting Along The Affranchi For The Black Independent Nation Of Haiti
... and the Rise of the Affranchi In 1503 the first recorded African slaves set foot in Haiti following its discovery ... which Haiti shares presently with the Dominican Republic, with the foundation of a major settlement called La ... in the travelogues of Western visitors to Soviet Central Asia. His favorite historical periods include the ...
Jake Leigh-Howarth - 23/01/2023 - 19:46
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300,000yo Hand Axes, Tombs & Rock Art Discovered in Oman
... while the second group operated in the Duqm province, in central Oman. And broadcasting their work to the world, the ... on the @Arduq_Arabia Twitter account. Tools From The First African Migration Waves The Rub’ al Khali desert, in ... “the first accelerator mass spectrometer in the Czech Republic.” Cosmogenic radionuclide dating is used to ...
ashley cowie - 10/05/2023 - 22:54
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The Comoros Archipelago and An Aged Tradition of Public Spaces
... Madagascar, Arabia, and also Swahili speakers from the African coast. As a result, a diverse and unique culture ... islands until the 1970s. Today the Comoros is a federal Republic. The Iconic Bangwe Funi Aziri is perhaps the ... is in an old walled part of the town. The medina is the central space of the Bangwe, and is divided into several ...
Ed Whelan - 15/01/2019 - 00:38
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Discovered: The Highland Volcano That Collapsed Ancient Rome
... social disruption caused by the civil war, that bought the Republic to an Empire. Following Julius Caesar ’ s ... year, but the new study of Greenland ice cores, from north-central Greenland, found volcanic ash and sulfuric acid in ... latitudes, like at Okmok II 43 BC, failures in East African Summer Monsoons result in “drought in the ...
ashley cowie - 23/06/2020 - 18:59
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How the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire Shifted Populations
... successive waves of migrations from Western Anatolia, central and northern Europe, and the Pontic-Kazakh Steppe ... from a necropolis in a large Roman city was of 100% East African ancestry. The individual was buried with an oil lamp ... of Canada, the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia, the National Institutes of Health, the ...
ancient-origins - 10/12/2023 - 22:01
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Mokele-mbembe: The Monster of the Congo River
... Zambia, and Cameroon, as well as in Lake Tele (in the Republic of Congo) and its surrounding regions. This name ... a decade living with the Bayaka pygmies of Congo and the Central African Republic. Did Humans Walk the Earth with Dinosaurs? ...
dhwty - 18/09/2019 - 19:36
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A Universe from Vomit: The Creation Story of Mbombo
... This creation myth comes from the Kuba people of Central Africa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mbombo creating the universe. ( ... Parkes References Allen, P and C Sanders. 2013. Bumba: African Creator God. Available at: ...
Veronica Parkes - 26/09/2018 - 18:58
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Man Steals Samurai Sword From History Museum and Launches Attack Outside Taiwan Presidential Office
... Army for control of Nanking (Nanjing), the capital of the Republic of China. Following the capture of the city, ... series of days. The Amazing Story of Yasuke: The Forgotten African Samurai Samurai Secrets Revealed: English Translation ... at the Taiwan Presidential Palace. (Photo: STR/Taiwan's Central News Agency) By April Holloway Man Steals Samurai ...
aprilholloway - 19/08/2017 - 19:01
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When Hannibal Met His Nemesis: The Battle of Zama
... war started in 218 BC, and was fought between the Roman Republic and Carthage, the two dominant powers in the western ... Hannibal changed his strategy, and moved his army from central Italy to the south, where several ports, including ...
dhwty - 08/02/2020 - 17:35
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Gabon: The Home of Ancient Nuclear Reactors
... of the globe. In particular, the country of Gabon in Central Africa was once home to 16 natural nuclear reactors. ... Energy Source Gabon, the shortened name for the Gabonese Republic, is located on the west coast of Central Africa. It ... as a country from France in 1960 along with several other African countries that had previously been part of the French ...
Lex Leigh - 03/04/2022 - 14:59
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The Garamantes, Ancient Masters of the Hostile Sahara
... in an otherwise arid, harsh landscape that is the North African desert. The Garamantes were skilled builders and ... Garamantes initially inhabited the Jebel Akhdar plateau in central Libya before expanding into the surrounding desert ... engaged in conflict with the Roman Empire during the late Republic and early Imperial periods. Roman sources describe ...
Aleksa Vučković - 24/03/2024 - 13:49