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 ...