Throughout history, there have been civilizations that left behind remarkable legacies, but some have completely vanished ...

Among those great medieval cities were places like Songo Mnara, a gorgeous and bustling Swahili city built on an island off the coast of Tanzania in the fourteenth century.

The history of human civilization is often shaped by the biases of those who narrate it. Nowhere is this more evident than in the contrasting depictions of medieval Africa and Western Europe.

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery has rewritten our understanding of early medieval England, revealing that two individuals buried in seventh-century cemeteries had recent West African ancesto ...

Two medieval mummies from an Arctic civilization have been discovered at the edge of Siberia. The remains of an adult and a baby were found in the Zelenyy Yar necropolis, an archaeological complex ...