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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

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Is your desk job killing your back? Ancient Egyptian scribes had the same aches and pains, say researchers

    By Petra Brukner Havelková, National Museum (Národní muzeum) Prague and Veronika Dulíková, Charles University     Thousands of years ago, during a period of Egyptian history known as the Old Kingdom (around 2649–2130 BC), it was rare for people to be able to read and write. From an estimated population of between 1 million and 1.5 million, only about 1% were literate and able to write in hieroglyphics. […]

today10 September, 2024 105

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Nigeria’s ancient Ilorin city – archaeologist uncovers over 1,000 years of history

    By Bolaji Owoseni, University of Cambridge   Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State, is a Nigerian city with a long and rich history. However, much of its distant past is not well known. Archaeology is now uncovering more of this history and the relationships of Ilorin to other ancient parts of the Yoruba world. Situated in north-central Nigeria and predominantly Yoruba-speaking, Ilorin gained prominence in the late 1700s. […]

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What are Sabaki languages? How people formed ethnic groups along the coast of east Africa

    By Daren Ray, Brigham Young University     A new book called Ethnicity, Identity and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa tracks the history of the coastal communities of east Africa and how the Sabaki family of Bantu languages was formed, shaped in part by the sea and the arrival of visitors from other shores and within the continent. We asked historian Daren Ray to tell us […]

today20 February, 2024 48

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Africans discovered dinosaur fossils long before the term ‘palaeontology’ existed

  By Julien Benoit, University of the Witwatersrand; Cameron Penn-Clarke, University of the Witwatersrand, and Charles Helm, Nelson Mandela University Credit for discovering the first dinosaur bones usually goes to British gentlemen for their finds between the 17th and 19th centuries in England. Robert Plot, an English natural history scholar, was the first of these to describe a dinosaur bone, in his 1676 book The Natural History of Oxfordshire. Over […]

today8 January, 2024 43