Trade routes have been the lifeblood of civilizations for thousands of years, connecting cultures, economies, and people across continents. This video offers a detailed map-based summary of the ...

In this way, an extensive network including sub-Saharan rural areas and trans-Saharan trade routes took shape. The glass beads uncovered in Africa do not only come from the well-known junk cargoes ...

This strongly suggests that trans-Saharan trade began hundreds of years earlier than previously thought. Caravans of thousands of camels laden with packages once crossed the desert, bringing gold ...

As the best preserved of ten similar fortresses in the Lobi area, part of a larger group of around a hundred stone-built enclosures, they are part of a network of settlements that flourished at the ...