Follow the legendary journey of Mansa Musa, the richest man in history, as he embarked on a pilgrimage to Mecca that stunned the medieval world with its wealth, scale, and impact. This historical deep ...

Mansa Musa, the ruler of the Mali Empire ... His fortune stunned the medieval world and reshaped African and Islamic history. But was his wealth truly unmatched—or has legend outgrown fact?

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 ...

Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT Mansa Musa was a medieval ruler of the West African empire of Mali. His vast wealth was, in 2015, estimated to have been worth around $530 billion in today's ...

Mansa Musa's fortune was to rule over a territory ... Thus a new and multicentric reading of medieval historical events emerges, in which Africa is an important protagonist and not an isolated ...

Mansa Musa, emperor of the Mali Empire, is widely regarded as the richest man in history. He was exceptionally wealthy to an extent that historians have struggled to quantify it accurately.

Mansa Musa had almost unlimited access to the most highly valued source of wealth in the medieval world, Major trading ...