Archaeologists began surveying Whitefield Square this week for evidence it may have once served as a burial ground for ...

The day after Christmas marks the beginning of an important annual holiday tradition, Kwanzaa. The cultural holiday celebrates African American heritage, community, and family. The Penn Museum is ...

Cairo unveils its African American Heritage Trail and Oral History Project, spotlighting the city’s pivotal Black history ...

An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funeral ritual that took place nearly 4,000 years ago in a little-known African kingdom, a new study finds.

No matter how much we dig, it seems there's always something new to discover. Quite literally... A 6th-century Byzantine bucket, an ancient Egyptian royal tomb and a sanctuary dedicated to the ...

Among this year’s class are University of Chicago student Tori Harris and Duke University student William Lieber, of ...

A University of Chicago college student is among the 2026 Rhodes Scholars announced this weekend. Tori Harris, a fourth-year in the College at UChicago, will attend Oxford University in England next ...

Plaques commemorating African American soldiers fighting against Nazi Germany in Europe have been removed from a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands. Approximately 1 million African American ...

Brazos’ remarkable revival, with restored landmarks and immersive exhibits that tell the story of Texas’ founding.

A newly created high-resolution map of the roads that threaded across the Roman Empire charts the ancient network from Great Britain to North Africa and has added more than 60,000 miles of roads that ...