Great Zimbabwe and the Roads to the Indian Ocean
How the builders, farmers, and metalworkers of Great Zimbabwe sustained a stone city connected to the Indian Ocean, and how archaeology is recovering its changing history.
Indian Ocean trade
The Letters Left Waiting in the Cairo Geniza
A mother waits for news, a merchant reroutes his flax, and a letter from Aden proves a death. The Cairo Geniza preserves the daily stakes of a connected medieval world.