SIOUX CITY -- It’s a trip back to the Middle Ages in modern-day Sioux City. The Kingdom of Riverssance Festival offers a mix of music, entertainment, food and wares with a nod to a time when ...

In fact, much of what's known about the kingdom and its capital city Kansala has been passed down ... It emerged in the 13th century as a coastal province within the kingdom of Mali. But when Mali ...

In fact, much of what's known about the kingdom and its capital city Kansala has ... It emerged in the 13th century as a coastal province within the kingdom of Mali. But when Mali fell a few ...

The region’s emphasis on education was seen best at Timbuktu: the city, now located in modern-day Mali, was not only a centre of commerce, but of scholarship. In the 14th century ... Masquerades from ...

At its height, around 1300, it stretched for some 2,000 kilometers west to east, from the Senegalese coast across 10 modern-day nations, and for much of the early 14th century, Mali was the ...

It gradually expanded as an important Islamic city on the Saharan trade route and attracted many scholars and traders before it became part of the Mali Empire early in the 14th century. In recent ...

But no one today can hold a candle to the net worth of Mansa Musa, an incredibly wealthy 14th-century ... kingdom spread out over 2,000 miles and contained parts of present-day Burkina Faso, Côte ...

An entire new district came online in Century City, transforming 176 acres on the westside into offices, shops, and a grand hotel. The city was in the midst of creating epic monuments in what some ...

Archaeologists excavating Oslo's medieval harbor have unearthed the remnants of a 14th-century gauntlet ... Oslo was founded as a medieval city and harbor around 1050. But in 1624, after a ...

After the 2012 military coup, Islamic fundamentalists destroyed some of Timbuktu’s ancient mausoleums and manuscripts. The city in northern Mali ... date to the 14th and 15th century but their ...

Haiti, which shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic, is home to important 19th-century monuments, Port-au-Prince's pastel-coloured hillside houses and a beautiful coastline ...