Ethiopian children watching a play

Africa

A member of a Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) patrol, May 1942

Desert raiders: the Long Range Desert Group in the Second World War

Statue of Ramesses II, at Luxor Temple. He ruled Egypt for 66 years, and left more statues than any other pharaoh (Photo by Michelle McMahon / Getty Images)

5 of the most powerful pharaohs to rule ancient Egypt

Theban mural showing people plucking geese. (Photo by DEA / G Dagli Orti/De Agostini/Getty Images)

Life in Ancient Egypt: what was it like?

A copy of a wall painting shows Sety I (r1294-1279 BC) opening the door for Osiris, lord of the dead

Egyptian pharaohs: your essential guide to Egypt’s ancient rulers

A carving of Tutankhamun and his young wife Ankhesenamun

The forgotten women in Tutankhamun’s tomb

Egyptologist Howard Carter crouches near the golden sarcophagus of Tutankhamun's remains

Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun: was the tomb really cursed?

Tutankhamun’s golden funeral mask

Your guide to Tutankhamun, plus 8 fascinating facts

Photo of the SAS in North Africa

Second World War

How the early SAS became heroes of the Second World War

Actor Viola Davis (right) holds a weapon aloft in new feature film The Woman King, inspired by the stories of female warriors in Dahomey

The warrior ‘Amazons’ of Dahomey

The Congo-Océan railroad’s deadly history

The Rosetta Stone

The rivalry behind the translation of the Rosetta Stone

St Hadrian of Canterbury

15 minutes of fameMichael Wood chooses St Hadrian

St Hadrian of CanterburyMedieval African theologian

Mongol and Mamluk cavalry clash in a 14th-century manuscript

How to repel a Mongol invasion: the success of Egypt’s Mamluk empire

Episode 7The contested legacy of an icon

The Sahara: a green and pleasant land

Episode 6Secrets of the pharaoh's mummy

15 minutes of fameHakim Adi chooses Alice Kinloch

Episode 5Treasures of the tomb

In a photograph taken at Bishop's Stortford railway station in Hertfordshire, 1972, resettled Ugandan Asians wait for the train that will take them to their new home. (Photo by Alamy)

Fleeing Idi Amin: the long journey to a new life

Episode 4The mystery of Nefertiti

Head of the Ancient Egyptian Queen Tiye

15 minutes of fameJoyce Tyldesley chooses Queen Tiye

Roger II of Sicily, depicted in an Arabic-style image in the Palatine Chapel of the Norman Palace in Palermo

Normans in AfricaThe 12th-century attempt to forge a north-African Norman kingdom

Episode 1Unearthing the boy king’s lost tomb

The Norman kings of Africa

Queen TiyeOvershadowed ancient Egyptian royal

Alice KinlochPan-African activist

The Mali empire: everything you wanted to know

Training of young Rwandan Hutu on the road to Kigali, 27 June 1994

Genocide: what can we learn from history?

Ras Prince Monolulu entertains the crowds at Aintree racecourse, 1931 (Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Ras Prince Monolulu: the horse-race tipster who transformed himself into an Abyssinian prince