South Africa 1400 - 1652

The Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and EnvironsThe Sterkfontein Valley landscape is in bot...

South Africa has early human fossils at Sterkfontein and other sites. The first modern inhabitants of the country were t...

 

March 20, 1602 marked the beginning of the inexorable end for many a state in the then known world. On that day, four hu...

The Pretoria region was initially occupied by the southern Ndebele people, led by Chief Musi. They inhabited this area a...

Vasco da Gama carried out 2 expeditions between 1497 and 1502. This feature focuses on the first, as it was during this ...