But the empire withered after the 15th century as its control of ... of the emerging Roman Empire along North Africa's coast, but some Garamantian cities in the Fezzan remained occupied until ...

A 15th-century treatise on prophecy is housed in ... centuries as Europeans’ principal source of knowledge on the African city. In 2012 a new peril emerged as jihadists— armed with weapons ...

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 ...

The ancient city, Great Zimbabwe, in Zimbabwe, Africa, was once part of a large ... It was largely abandoned by the 15th century as the Shona people migrated, but the exact reasons for abandonment ...

“Mutapa operated on three basic levels: they had a capital city, provinces and little villages,” says Professor Angelo Nicolaides of the University of South Africa. Chiefs ruled at each of ...

From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, a 15th-Century monk somehow designed ... inspired by Arab cartography, like a 12th-Century map by North African geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi.