The elders also highlighted the imagery of symbolically significant animals, such as anacondas, jaguars, bats and herons, as ...

The Tapajós River, a lifeline in Brazil’s Amazon basin, has reached historically low levels this year amid an unprecedented drought. The urgent situation made the National Water and Sanitation Agency ...

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A conversation-starter of a film by director Mati Diop, this brief but complex examination of a France-to-Africa transfer of ancient art asks: Who benefits?

Haunted by this loss, the documentary film Dahomey by the French-Senegalese director Mati Diop, which won the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Berlinale, follows the repatriation of 26 objects from ...

Archeologists analyzing stretches of the Amazon using LIDAR have discovered a long-lost Portuguese colony in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. Experts found geometric shapes—possibly denoting ...

Since the documentary’s cameras stopped rolling, plans for a new museum to showcase the treasures have stalled, and the artifacts are once again off limits to the public in Benin. By Elian ...

Archeologists analyzing stretches of the Amazon using LIDAR have discovered a long-lost Portuguese colony in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. Experts found geometric shapes—possibly denoting places of ...