Tomorrow, the museum opens a long-term installation of "Glass Beads of Ghana," an exhibition of powdered glass beads made from recycled glass that have been a fixture of West Africa's culture for ...

A trove of more than 10,000 colorful glass beads suggests that an ancient ... Archaeology Enslaved Africans led a decade-long ... 1,000-Year-Old Colored Glass Beads Discovered in West Africa.

Tiny glass beads discovered in mountain caves about 25 miles from the shores of Lake Malawi in eastern-central Africa provide evidence that European trade in the continent’s hinterland was built on ...

For three years, artisans in Durban, South Africa, have been stitching together the 600 beaded-cloth layers that make up the centerpiece of Liza Lou’s new exhibition in New York, the 100-foot ...

Colourful glass beads and red blankets play an important role in Maasai culture. But their origins are surprising, and provide an interesting insight into cultural exchanges between Europe and Africa.

These discoveries suggest that people in Africa and southwestern Asia made beads long before their European counterparts started to do so, about 40,000 years ago, Bouzouggar and his colleagues argue.

That's not the case with beads made by South African glass artist Astrid Riedel. "You look at hers, your mouth hangs open, and you ask, 'How did she do that?' " she says.