Africa

Geologists have recently discovered two alien minerals unknown to Earth in a meteorite in Somalia. A small, 2.5 ounce (70-gram) fragment of the fifteen thousand kilogram fallen comet known as El Ali revealed the alien ore. Scientists stumbled upon the...

Scientists discovered that the number of sharks at their main meeting spots has changed. One of the reasons is that certain killer whales favour shark livers. South Africa is famous for its big, great white sharks. But there's some concerning...

George Stravelakis, sometimes called "Halkias," was an enslaved Greek man from the island of Chios who rose to become the Prime Minister of Tunisia in the 1860s. By Antonis Chaldeos Stravelakis was born in 1817 on the island of Chios. During the...

Kolmanskop, a once-thriving diamond mining town nestled in the Namib Desert, is now a ghost town visited only by tourists who regard it as a haunted town due to its history and spooky appearance. Its history started in 1908, when...

The discovery of a ship that disappeared five hundred years ago and was found in a desert in southwest Africa with gold coins aboard has been one of the most exciting archaeological finds of recent years. The Bom Jesus (The...

Mediterranean Storm Daniel, which caused destruction in Greece, moved to Libya where floods swept away entire neighborhoods and wrecked homes in multiple coastal towns in the east of the North African nation. As many as 2,000 people were feared dead,...

A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake has struck Central Morocco, leaving a trail of destruction that has killed more than 2,000 people. The epicenter of this seismic event was in the remote High Atlas Mountains, approximately forty-four miles southwest of...

A group of researchers in Berlin has successfully traced the living relatives of individuals whose remains were taken from Tanzania and transported to Germany for scientific experiments during the colonial period. Since 2017, Berlin's Museum of Prehistory and Early History...

Cyrene was an ancient Greek and later Roman city in Libya. It was the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region.

The hiatus in Berenike, a Hellenistic city in Egypt, was a combination of volcanic eruptions and drought, scientists say

The name Vlahakis is widespread in Zambia, thanks to a brave Greek man from the island of Crete called Nikolaos Vlahakis who arrived in southern Africa at the end of the 19th century. His descendants, who are members of the...

Elon Musk has taken to what was formerly known as Twitter to slam the use of the EFF's (Economic Freedom Fighters) anthem "Kill the Boer, kill the white farmer" on Saturday. In occasion of the tenth anniversary of the...

After 24 years of not being seen, the Dusky Tetraka bird was recently rediscovered in northeastern Madagascar. The small bird has an olive and yellow throat and moves around on the ground. A team from The Peregrine Fund's Madagascar Program...

Greeks in South Africa managed to rise socially and prosper, with several of them becoming very successful and wealthy.

New emerging evidence discovered in South Africa nullifies prior suggestions indicating that homo sapiens was the first species to use fire. Analysis of fossil remains unearthed from the Rising Star Cave system in South Africa indicates that Homo naledi, an...