Ancient, Prehistoric and Early People of Africa Note: If you can't find what you want here - check the World page! You might also try this Alexa search for Ancient+History+Africa Infoplease.com Searchbox search for: in  All InfopleaseAll Almanacs   General   Entertainment   SportsBiographiesDictionaryEncyclopedia The countries and regions of Africa - from the About.com guide on Geography Information about Africa - from Infoplease.com encyclopedia. World History Archives (Africa) - Pro bono web pages from Hartford Web Publishing.  The World History Archives are collections of documents for teaching and learning about world history from a working class perspective. The presence of documents here does not imply an endorsement of their content nor a warrant of their authenticity. Hunting Hominids - presented by Discovery Channel Canada.  One of the great mysteries of science is when and how we became human.  Read about a fantastic new discovery by Canadian geologist Bob Walter in this exclusive, 5-part series on our human origins.  Bob Walter has discovered the oldest evidence of stone tools near a marine environment. At 125,000 years old, the find suggests our human ancestors migrated out of Africa north along the Red Sea coast. Egypt: The Complete Guide - This is Egypt's Official Internet Site of: The Ministry of Tourism, Egypt and The Egyptian Tourist Authority.  Plenty of great resources here, including Tour Egypt Monthly, an online magazine with feature articles for fresh new insight into the past and present of Egypt. The Plateau - This is the Official Website for Dr. Zahi Hawass, Undersecretary of the State for the Giza Monuments, Director of the Pyramids.  Learn all about Dr. Hawass and the famous pyramids, including information about sites in Giza, conservation and management of the Giza plateau, and the kings of the 4th Dynasty.   This site will grow and remain current with new information as it arrives directly from Dr. Hawass.

Petroglyphs African Petroglyphs African font. Fonts.com has the best selection of downloadable, design quality, True Type and PostScript fonts for Mac and Windows.

Australopithecus - Australopithecus: a collective name for the earliest known hominids emerging about 5 million years ago in East Africa.  This is a demonstration search made by Ancient Man, using one of the finest search engines available today, the FREE Copernic Agent Basic.  Click the link to see the search and for instructions on how to get your own Copernic Agent Basic.  Now available in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese.

Homo erectus - an extinct species of the human lineage, formerly known as Pithecanthropus erectus, having upright stature and a well-evolved postcranial skeleton, but with a smallish brain, low forehead, and protruding face.  Like the web sites about Australopithecus, there are just too many good ones about Homo erectus to link individually, so we thought the easiest and best way was to do a demo search, like we did for Australopithecus. This is a demonstration search made by Ancient Man, using one of the finest search engines available today, the FREE Copernic Agent Basic.  Click the link to see the search and for instructions on how to get your own Copernic Agent Basic.  Now available in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese.

Duke Papyrus Archive - Duke University - The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of 1,373 papyri from ancient Egypt. You can browse the papyri by subject or search by keyword, and images of each papyrus are available in various magnifications. Background material about papyri and papyrology introduces the archive.  The target audience includes: papyrologists, ancient historians, archaeologists, biblical scholars, classicists, Coptologists, Egyptologists, students of literature and religion and all others interested in ancient Egypt. Also, be sure to see the main entrance page Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library for some very interesting items.  For example: there is a link to Historic American Sheet Music.

Ancient Egypt - presented by Discovery Channel Canada.  There is a map with 12 clickable sites plus a clickable "The Nile".   Explore mummies, lifestyles, rulers and the image gallery.  Take a tour of the Nile.  Take the Egypt quiz.

THEBAN MAPPING PROJECT (TMP) - Theban Necropolis (Tour the major monuments of Thebes).  Valley of the Kings (Visit the tombs of Egypt's New Kingdom pharaohs).  KV5 (Follow the ongoing work of the TMP in the tombs of the sons of Rameses II).  Egyptology (Go behind the scenes of the fascinating world of Egyptology).  You can get the Timeline of Ancient Egypt from this site.  Find out where you can study the field of Egyptology in TMP's very own bibliography on Egyptology as a Discipline.  TMP will be providing students with an Egyptological Bibliography containing over 30,000 references to studies of ancient Egyptian history, culture and archaeology.

Africa Links - This is a links page with a short explanation of most of the links.  For example: the first link is to African Chronology - Web Chronology project on the ineternet.  Includes Mali, Kush, Nok, Egypt, Zulu African Outline of history with links.  And the last link has Zulu Nation - a history.

Lucy and the first family at Hadar - a "Google Search" made by Ancient Man.

African Timelines - traces the history of "man" in Africa from its beginnings.  Evidence points to a common human ancestry originating in Africa from the emergence of a humanlike species in eastern African some 5 million years ago.  Part II of African Timelines is African Empires;  "...  truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?" --Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Wonders of the African World (1999): http://www.pbs.org/wonders/
African Timelines, also includes brief discussions of the African-Egyptian Question.

Egyptian Mythology - the principal amuletic symbols, Gods, Goddesses, heroes and sacred animals.

The Griffith Institute - Part of Oxford University.  Has an Egyptological archive including Howard Carter's personal diaries of the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun.  A page of wonderful research tools also.  Ancient Man highly recommends you make a visit here.

Ancient Egypt - From TeacherNet.  TeacherNet has some of the best links for educational research on the web today.

Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Egypt - from the University of Evansville.  Here you can also read the The Papyrus of Ani (The Egyptian Book of the Dead).  Translated by E. A. Wallis Budge

Virtual-Egypt - An educational, multimedia resource and community about ancient Egypt. You can get a Hieroglyphics Screen Saver for free from the Virtual-Egypt site - or just click here to go directly to the screensaver page.