Medieval

ISBN: 9781407308050
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This book reprints the first volume on the University of Kentucky's excavations at Kulubnarti in Sudan, originally published in 1996 but long out of print. The excavations at Kulubnarti remain the only detailed study of a late medieval and pos... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789088900679
Published by : Sidestone Press
This final report describes the study of an exceptionally well-preserved Iron Age building discovered in northern Burkina Faso, West Africa. The site of Oursi hu-beero, meaning "the big house of Oursi" in the locally spoken Songhay language, wa... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780300141566
Published by : Yale University Press
This superb book, lavishly illustrated with plans and photographs takes a largely archaeological approach in its comprehensive coverage of Ethiopia's early churches from the conversion of the Aksumite kingdom in the 4th century down to the 13t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780816055623
Published by : Facts on File
While Europe experienced the early medieval period, a series of empires spread across West Africa, making advances in trade, language, culture, and economy. Beginning around 1200 CE, the Mali, Songhay, and Ghana empires spread their sequential ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841715933
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
The site of Al-Basra lies in northern Morocco and was said to have been founded during the break-up of the Islamic empire in North Africa and Spain in c.AD 800, only to have been abandoned just 300 years later. This volume contains a series of ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004138865
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
These ten papers originated at a conference held in Cairo in 2002, which reflected the growing accessibility of medieval Islamic sources, paralled by, and perhaps the result of, greater academic interest in the medieval Near East. The specialis... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841716398
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
In the 7th century AD Arabic-speaking nomads moved into the Sudan from the Suez and Red Sea. This was just the first of a series of migrations, the complex story of which is presented in this study. Drawing on archaeological, architectural, et... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781900971010
Published by : Society for Libyan Studies
Series: Society for Libyan Studies Monograph
Volume: 4
Christian Monuments of Cyrenaica publishes archaeological studies undertaken between 1953 and 1971 by the late J. B. Ward-Perkins (d. 1981) and the late R. G. Goodchild (d. 1968). It presents Ward-Perkins accounts (mostly left in ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841714394
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR Archaeopress
Volume: 1059
This study uses documentary, textual and numismatic evidence, and archaeological survey data, to assess the development of the political economy and urban growth in Northern Morocco from the 9th to 15th century AD. Ennahid looks at the rise, gr... .... Learn More