How West Africa's medieval Gold Road shows a path for free trade

This week I moderated a conversation about the three great West African empires of the medieval period between 1100-1500 AD: ...
MedievalMadness on MSNOpinion

The most powerful medieval cities you’ve never seen

Medieval cities were centers of power, trade, religion, and violence. From Constantinople and Baghdad to Paris and Venice, ...
Ars Technica

Lidar mapping reveals mountainous medieval cities along the Silk Road

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 ...
Morning Overview on MSN

World’s largest cog ship wreck unearthed off Denmark stuns researchers

Maritime archaeologists working off the Danish coast have uncovered the remains of a colossal medieval cargo vessel that is already reshaping what experts thought they knew about northern European ...
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A medieval trade-route from the Niger to the Gulf of Guinea / by Ivor Wilks

https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!1070443~!0#focus ...