Today, the Asante people still remember their ancient traditions. They hold special ceremonies called durbars. This photograph shows an Asante chief at a durbar. Most West African kingdoms slowly ...

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although archaeological finds have hinted at cultural exchange between European and North African hunter-gatherers. Using ancient genomes, researchers have mapped the emergence of agriculture in ...

The remains of one of the ancient humans found at a Tunisia site named Djebba was found to have about 6% of his DNA originating from European hunter-gatherer ancestry. These results represent the ...