In the 7th century Christianity retreated under the advance of Islam. But it remained the chosen religion of the Ethiopian Empire and persisted in pockets in North Africa. In the 15th century ...

His work was rediscovered and reconstructed in the 15th century ... quintessential mediaeval T-and-O Beatus map. This map depicted continents such as Africa, Asia, and Europe, but its focus ...

The road’s heyday ended around the 15th Century ... In 5th Century Ghana routes unfurled across the Sahara Desert, to trade salt – abundant in north-west Africa, including present-day Morocco ...

African slavery was more akin to European serfdom --the condition of most Europeans in the 15th century. In the Ashanti Kingdom of West Africa, for example, slaves could marry, own property and ...

These were two infamous lions from the Tsavo region in Kenya, East Africa that killed and ate railway workers on the British Kenya-Uganda at the end of the 19th Century. The labourers were ...

Experts at Yale University have proved the Vinland Map, which supposedly showed the exploration of North America by Vikings in the 15th century, is fake. First revealed in 1965, the map ...

Six centuries ago, a mighty armada of Chinese ships crossed the China Sea, then ventured west to Ceylon, Arabia, and East Africa ... three decades of the 15th century was intended to signal ...

Starting in the medieval period, a series of powerful kingdoms developed in West Africa. These West African ... depicted the Obas and Iyobas. The 15th century also saw the rise of the Songhai ...

Colonial landmarks are also shown in West Africa ... by AKG/Album The journeys of 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map including Vasco da Gama’s first ...

From dots and dashes on cave walls to maps of ocean tides and then the earliest graphs, see how we’ve been visualising data ...

President Joe Biden has managed this national divide by marking both Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day in separate White House proclamations. But rather than divide up for rival civic holidays, ...