From his roof, Sidi Mohamed Lemine Sidiya scans the medieval town of Oualata, a treasure that is disappearing under the sands ...

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

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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 ...

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

The possible conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque would push Christians of the world against ... could pit the two against each other, and this in the 21st century. For the Ecumenical Patriarch, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Richard Ley, who lives in Rothwell, sets his books in a fantasy land that is heavily based on late 14th century England. They are thrillers with a strong mystery element together with a dash of ...

Here are four myths about the medieval world it’s time we moved past. Sure, it would take until the 19th century for the germ theory of disease to overtake the concept of humors and “miasmas ...