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African Art (through ArtLex)Wonders of the African World (PBS presentation with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)Black Kingdoms of the NileThe Swahili CoastThe Slave KingdomsThe Holy LandThe Road to TimbuktuLost Cities of the SouthAfrica 8000 B.C. - 1600 A.D. (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History)8000 - 2000 B.C.Western North AfricaEgyptAn abridged list of rulers in ancient Egypt and NubiaOld Kingdom (ca. 2649 - 2150 B.C.)Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030 - 1640 B.C.)Sudan2000 - 1000 B.C.EgyptNew Kingdom (ca. 1550 - 1070 B.C.)Sudan1000 B.C. - 1 A.D.EgyptLate Period (ca. 712 - 332 B.C.)SudanInland Niger DeltaNok Terracottas (500 B.C. - 200 A.D.)Ife (from ca. 350 B.C.)Pre-Pavement and Pavement EraTerracottas1 - 500 A.D.EgyptSudanWestern North AfricaNok Terracottas (500 B.C. - 200 A.D.)Aksum (1st - 7th century A.D.)500 - 1000 A.D.EgyptWestern North Africa (The Maghrib)Western SudanGuinea CoastEastern and Southern Africa1000 - 1400 A.D.EgyptWestern North Africa (The Maghrib)Western SudanGuinea CoastEastern and Southern AfricaMapungubwe (ca. 1050 - 1270 A.D.)Great Zimbabwe (11th - 15th century A.D.)1400 - 1600 A.D.EgyptThe Art of the Mamluk Period (1250 - 1517 A.D.)Western North Africa (The Maghrib)Central AfricaWestern SudanGuinea CoastEastern and Southern AfricaAfrican Art: Special Topics (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History)The Age of Exploration: Early EncountersBenin ChronologyThe Central ZoneAfrican Christianity in EthiopiaAfrican Christianity in KongoThe Fulani/Fulbe PeopleThe Art of Fulani/Fulbe PeopleIgbo-Ukwu (ca. 9th century A.D.)The Age of IronTrade and the Spread of IslamAfro-Portuguese IvoriesAfrican Lost-Wax CastingBronze, Copper, and BrassThe Tada FigureLydenburg Heads (ca. 500 A.D.)The Trans-Saharan Gold Trade (7th - 14th century)Africa (at the British Museum)The Sainsbury African GalleriesMasqueradePotteryWoodcarvingTextilesPersonal AdronmentSculptureTextilesGraphic ArtsAncient Egypt, with a link to Later EgyptMoneyRoyal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, BelgiumModern African Art: A Basic Reading List compiled by Janet L. Stanley, National Museum of African Art Library, Smithsonian Institution LibrariesAfrica (Professor Ron Johnson)Art and Life in Africa OnlineKey Moments in LifeThe Chronology of African Art (Professor Christopher D. Roy)Introduction: Diffusion and other Problems in the History of African States (Professor James Giblin)Issues in African History (Professor James Giblin)Africa-related images, including Ancient Egypt (African Studies, University of Pennsylvania)African SculptureAncient Africa (through Images from History)Kingdoms of Kerma and Punt (26-12th c. B.C.)Formative and Classic Kemet (31st -16th c. B.C.)Post-Classic Kemet: 2nd Int. Period and Empire (18-11th c. B.C.)Hellenistic and Coptic Egypt (3rd c. B.C. - 7th c. A.D.)Kingdom of Napata (circa 9th - 4th c. B.C.)Ancient Sudan: Kingdom of Meroë (4th c. B.C. - 325 A.D.)Ancient Horn of Africa: Axum (4th - 7th c. A.D.)Empires of the Western Sudan (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History)Ghana EmpireMali EmpireSonghai EmpireG. I. Jones Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art and CultureIndex to Ibibio, Ijo and OgoniIndex to Ika Igbo (Western Igbo)Index to Nsukka and Nri/Awka IgboIndex to Ikwerri IgboIndex to Abiriba IgboIndex to Nkporo IgboIndex to Ohafia/Abam IgboIndex to Riverine Igbo (Ekpafia, Abua, Ekpeya)Index to various Igbo groups: Ngusu Ada, Isu Ikwu Ato, Alayi, ItemIndex to Ekpe MasqueradesIndex to Igbo music, shrines, architecture and other cultural artifactsExplore the Collection of African Art in the National Museum of African Art, Washington, DCThe Diversity of African ArtThe Uses of African ArtImagery in African ArtWomen in African Art (Student Exhibition by Jannea R. Prescott)Current and Past Exhibitions at the National Museum of African Art (Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.)Identity of the Sacred: Two Nigerian Shrine FiguresAudible Artworks: Selected African Musical InstrumentsImages of Power and IdentityThe Art of the Personal ObjectCeramics at the National Museum of African ArtThe Ancient West African City of Benin, A.D. 1300-1897The Ancient Nubian City of Kerma, 2500-1500 B.C.Transatlantic Dialogue: In and Out of AfricaThe Artistry of African CurrencyWrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American IdentityHats Off! A Salute to African HeadwearClaiming Art/Reclaiming Space: Post-Apartheid Art from South AfricaSokari Douglas Camp: Church Ede, A Tribute to Her FatherNew Acquisitions: Gifts from the Lawrence Gussman CollectionBaule: African Art/Western EyesSouth Africa 1936 - 1949: Photographs by Constance Stuart LarrabeeAfrican Forms in the Furniture of Pierre LegrainOlowe of Ise: A Yoruba Sculptor to KingsA Spiral of HistoryThe Poetics of Line: Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group, NigeriaThe Art of Africa, links and images, through Mike Gunther's Timelines of Art History: The WorldLe Masque au Burkina Faso (through Conseil International des Musées)African Art (through Mark Harden's Artchive)African Art in the collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OhioAfrican Art in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: de Young MuseumAfrican Art in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TexasArt of Africa in the collection of Lowe Museum of Art, University of MiamiAfrica: The Art of a Continent (Guggenheim Museum, New York), with a link to a A Clickable Map of the Art of the Africa ContinentEastern AfricaCentral AfricaSahel and SavannaNorthern AfricaSouthern AfricaCentral AfricaThe Woods Collection of African Art (Lois E. Woods Museum, Norfolk State University)AngolaBurkina FasoCameroonGabonGhanaGuineaIvory CoastLiberiaNigeriaSierra LeoneTanzaniaMozambiqueDemocratic Republic of the CongoSub-Saharan African Art: Introduction (at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University)Africa, Oceania and the Americas, with a link to Selected Works in The Collection of The Minneapolis Institute of ArtsAfrican Art (in The George Ortiz Collection)The Visual Arts of Zimbabwe (Professor George P. Landow, Brown University)Great ZimbabweColonial Architecture in Zimbabwe: Columns and White WallsSculpture in ZimbabweA Brief History of Contemporary Stone Sculpture in ZimbabweIs Contemporary Zimbabwean Sculpture Shona Sculpture?Zimbabwean Sculpture in ContextChapungu Sculpture ParkHandelsman Sculpture ParkAnimalsBirdsMale FiguresWomen and Children, Family LifeReligious SubjectsSingle Female FiguresZimbabwean Rock and Cave PaintingsPaintings of the Weya WomenGreat Zimbabwe (four photographs)Mystery of Great Zimbabwe (Peter Tyson, PBS Nova Online), plus an investigation of the siteGreat Zimbabwe National Park, Zimbabwe (photographs by Tom Loos)Riddle of Great Zimbabwe (abstract of article by Roderick J. McIntosh in Archaeology magazine)Ceramics, metal craft and settlement in south-eastern Zimbabwe since ca 1400AD (through the The Laboratory for Ceramic Research, Department of Quaternary Geology, University of Lund, Sweden)African Masks (through KmtSpace: African Art & Architecture)Bambara Ideogram: The Stylized AntelopeIgbo Double Mask: IkengaThe Figure of a Fang Ancestor: Archetype of an OxymoronDan Masks: Towards Absolute Abstraction step by stepDouble Perspective: Pende Mask: The Roots of Analytic CubismNok CanonBenin Art: The State of the Art of Mimesis and NaturalismAfrican Architecture (through KmtSpace: African Art & Architecture)Precedents: The State-of-the-Art: Nile Valley Archetypes (The Stone-Pyramid Builders: Djoser, Snefru, Khafre, Khufu, Menkaure, Huni)Proto-Pharaon Space: Kushite Architecture (Napatan, Meroitic, Christian Periods)Elliptic Space: Imba Huru (The Great Zimbabwe)Skyscaper Tradition in Western Sudan: Morocco (Western Sahara: the ksar of South-Atlas and Mzab)Skyscaper Tradition in East Sudan: Sheba (Old Ethiopian) Kingdom (Ancient Ethiopia: Before the Sheba peninsula became Arabic)Panoptic Space: Gurunsi CompoundAbstract Expressionism: Yoruba CompoundExtreme Articulation: Dogon Settlement Sao Tradition: Mosgum HomesteadLacustrian Dwellings: Atlantic Coast: GanviUnderground Dwellings: MatmataGelede Masks & Sorcery (through The Baobab Project, Harvard University)Art of the Kwele of Equatorial Africa: ancestor masks, bush spirit masks (by Louis Perrois, through Tribal Arts)Ashanti Gold Weights (through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at The Australian National University)African Sculpture (through Mark Harden's Artchive)The British and the Benin Bronzes, text only (through African Reparations Movement)