Discover the story of Mansa Musa, the richest man in history and ruler of the Mali Empire, whose immense wealth, legendary ...

About a decade ago, according to unconfirmed reports, thieves made off with the central door of the Great Mosque of Djenné ... was built in the 14th century by Kankou Moussa, ruler of the ...

A former 14th century monastery will re-open to visitors this month with a half-term festival and a 60-seat café. Plans have unveiled for Coventry Charterhouse by the National Trust, which has ...

an ancient mosque lies on the beach.The Kongo Mosque, that is believed to date back to the 14th century, is believed to be one of the oldest mosques in East Africa, having been used by Persians ...

Like all of Timbuktu, the home of the manuscripts is imbued with wonder. It’s opposite the Sankore Mosque. Sankore was one of the largest universities in the Islamic world in the 15th century when ...

Israel’s ongoing war of annihilation in Gaza has had a lethal campaign unleashed against the foundations of Palestinian ...

thereby setting the stage for the Timurid period (late 14th to 15th centuries), one of the most brilliant periods in Islamic art. Particularly relevant are the mausoleum dome’s double-shell structure ...

They are taken from the second revelation or “shewing” of the 14th-century mystic’s extraordinary Revelations of Divine Love, the earliest surviving manuscript written by a woman in English. Ill and ...

Archaeologists are confident they have found the wreckage of an 800-ton Dutch merchant ship that sunk off the coast of Australia 168 years ago. The Koning Willem de Tweede was lost near Robe ...

Hundreds of years ago, someone in Switzerland threw down their gauntlet. Now, archaeologists excavating a site near Kyburg Castle in Pfäffikon, Switzerland have found it — in surprisingly good ...