This week I moderated a conversation about the three great West African empires of the medieval period between 1100-1500 AD: ...
The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval trade routes connecting Beijing and Hangzhou with Constantinople and Cairo, has mostly been focused on its endpoints: China and the ...
Svælget 2, a 600-year-old vessel, sheds new light on how trade moved across northern Europe during the Middle Ages.
https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!1070443~!0#focus ...