Before satellites and global positioning systems, ancient civilizations charted their known universe with remarkable ...

From the 16th to the 19th centuries, the kingdom of Kaabu dominated a swath of West Africa that included modern ... which allowed them to sketch out a map of the site, nearly 150 acres.

It lies about four hundred miles north west of modern Ghana. Ancient Ghana encompassed what ... quoted in Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Click here to listen to Al ...