The retired radiologist and self-described “investor in rare and valuable African tribal artifacts ... This supposedly ancient work of art came from a tree cut down sometime around 1975.

The Cape Town-born artist has spent decades visiting many of the thousands of ancient rock art sites that dot South Africa, in order to meticulously produce millimeter-accurate copies of humanity ...

A new exhibit at the Kelowna Art Gallery explores African history andlegend using Lego. Building Black Civilizations: Journey of 2,000 Ships, is a series ofLego block sculptures. Ekow Nimako is the ...

A ritual and funerary landscape is emerging in northwestern Africa, revealing connections with the Mediterranean, Atlantic and the Saharan regions.

When Kevin Hatala asks his students on the first day of class, “What are the characteristics that make us human?” the first response they tend to give is opposable thumbs. “But if you look ...

From a delicate 13th-century clay figure to self-portraits by photographer Samuel Fosso, New York's Metropolitan Museum ...

The island's exquisite array of flowers, valued for their fragrances, are harvested by Hawaiians for the ancient tradition ... Estes learned the intricate art of lei-making from her grandmother ...

Next to it sits a clay sculpture of a curled body from the ancient city of Djenne-Djenno ... cultures represented among the 500 works of African art on display," she pointed out.

If the cave art painting really captures a dicynodont, it predates formal paleontology. They've been extinct for about 250 ...