From the parapets of Le Kef, on a rocky spur in northwestern Tunisia, one can see deep into the mountains of Algeria, whose border is a short distance away. A fort of some kind has existed here since ...

Mark Lewis Tizzoni, Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies, has co-authored a new paper in The Palgrave Handbook of African Christianity from Apostolic Times to the Present.

Tunis — The reconstruction of the "Villa Africa" known as the most luxurious mansion in Roman Africa, will undoubtedly give a new life to the Roman town of El Jem , known by the Romans as Thysdrus.

Ancient Romans were big fans of olive oil, consuming an average of five gallons per person per year by one estimate. Beyond ...

Now predominantly Muslim, North Africa was once a Christian heartland, producing Catholic popes who left their mark on the Church to this day. Their papacies were in the era of the Roman Empire, which ...

OUIDAH, Benin (AP) — In a basilica built in the heartland of Africa’s Voodoo religion, Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday unveiled a treatise outlining the role of the Roman Catholic Church on the ...

Roman art personified Rome as a goddess linked to Peace and Liberty. It depicted its province Africa with scorpion, lion and cornucopia, wearing an elephant scalp and subservient to Rome. After the ...