“Caravans of Gold” is the first major exhibition presenting art from the medieval period to demonstrate the global impact of Trans-Saharan trade and the shared history of West Africa, the ...

In the Medieval era, the world’s largest desert was actually a robust trade route connected to Asia’s Silk Roads. Organised by the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University near Chicago ...

Drawings of an Australasian cockatoo found in a 13th century manuscript in the Vatican library suggest that trade routes around Australia were thriving during medieval times, according to a study ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A drawing of an Australasian cockatoo by ... "I think the parrot adds a window into the world of medieval trade, and the fact that small craft were plying the waters to ...

points to the possible existence of a vast medieval trade route spanning much of the Eastern hemisphere. Discovered via a metal detector in a field in Hampshire, the copper-alloy coin dates to ...

The Norse trade network may have also been involved ... The mammal was rarely depicted in medieval art, and neither did it hold a place in heraldry. “This lack of representation might have ...

The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval trade routes connecting Beijing and Hangzhou with Constantinople and Cairo, has mostly been focused on its endpoints ...

In the Medieval era, the world’s largest desert was actually a robust trade route connected to Asia’s Silk Roads. Organised by the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University near Chicago ...

700-year-old Vatican drawing of Australian bird rewrites medieval trade route history Open in App ...