Archaeology
- 581
- Medina of Fez
- UNESCO World Heritage site. Includes photographs, maps and a description of the ancient city.
- 582
- Ife (from ca. 350 B.C.)
- Article on this city which, according to the Yoruba people, is where the founding deities Oduduwa and Obatala began the creation of the world.
- 583
- Ife Pre-Pavement and Pavement Era (800–1000 A.D.)
- Article on this ancient Yoruba city in south-western Nigeria.
- 584
- Nok Terracottas (500 BC–200 AD)
- The Nok culture remains an enigma. It is one of the earliest African centers of ironworking and terracotta figure production.
- 585
- Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove
- UNESCO World Heritage site. Includes photographs, maps, a description of the site and a statement of significance.
- 586
- Settlement Archaeology in Nigeria
- The history of scientific archaeological research in Nigeria and its relatively recent development.
- 587
- Sukur Cultural Landscape
- UNESCO World Heritage site. Includes photographs, maps, a description of the site and a justification for inscription.
- 588
- Island of Gorée
- UNESCO World Heritage site. Includes photographs, maps, a description of the slave trading center.
- 589
- Island of Saint-Louis
- UNESCO World Heritage site. Includes photographs, maps, a description of the site and a statement of significance.
- 590
- African Rock Art: The Coldstream Stone
- Article on this small polychrome stone, found buried with a human skeleton near the Lottering River in the southern part of the Western Cape province.
- 591
- Arts of the San People in Nomansland
- Article by Geoffrey Blundell on the paintings of the San people who survived in this area for longer than in other parts of South Africa.
- 592
- Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs
- UNESCO World Heritage site. Includes photographs, maps and a description of the site.
- 593
- Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
- Description, photographs, maps and documents for these UNESCO World Heritage Centres.
- 595
- UNESCO: uKhahlamba / Drakensberg Park
- Photographs and information on this park and the criteria for its selection as a World Heritage Centre.
- 596
- Black Pharaoh Trove Uncovered
- From BBC, A team of Swiss and French archaeologists unearth statues of Nubian kings, in Sudan.
- 597
- Buhen
- Site of a small settlement in about 2500 BC. Includes information and photographs of a range of artifacts.
- 598
- Nubia: Jebel Moya
- Ancient settlement that flourished around 500 to 100 BC and was excavated 1909-1914. Includes information and photographs of a range of artifacts.