Africa’s oldest underground transport system has been moving millions of people across Cairo for nearly four decades.

Name: Babylonian Map of the World ("Imago Mundi" in Latin) What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ancient ...

This was when the greatest number of African states won independence, giving a major boost to the liberation process for the continent as a whole. The continent's oldest independent country is ...