The curious minds at Aperture uncover the astonishing wealth and historical influence of African emperor Mansa Musa.

In the fourteenth century, if you wanted to find one of the richest empires in the world, you wouldn’t have looked in Europe. Instead, you would have travelled to West Africa and the Mali Empire. The ...

What is the present-day importance of the Middle Ages? Many of the discussions we see in society today do not look any further back than a couple of generations at the most. This kind of short-term ...