EDINBURGH, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Scotland's National Museum raised the curtain this week on celebrations marking the bicentenary of the birth of the country's most renowned African explorer, David ...

LONDON — The contents of a long-lost letter written by 19th century explorer David Livingstone have been deciphered by a U.S.-British team of academics and scientists. The nearly 140-year-old missive ...

DAVID LIVINGSTONE, physician, missionary and explorer, was one of those people who are fortunate enough to attain a high place in the esteem and affection of their contemporaries, not by following the ...

In the early part of the nineteenth century Africa was called the dark continent One man s passion for Christ would challenge that view Dr David Livingstone took the Gospel to Africa in word and deed ...

Multispectral imaging technology continues to recover new insights from the field diaries of 19th-century explorer David Livingstone. A team of scholars and scientists who worked on the Livingstone ...

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I met Petina Gappah at a Scribner lunch in New York City during the March prepub tour for her historical novel Out of Darkness, Shining Light, due out in September. It’s easy to see how she charmed ...