‘Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa’, The Block Museum of Art
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Caravans of Gold is the first major exhibition addressing the scope of Saharan trade and the shared history of West Africa, the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe from the eighth to sixteenth centuries. Weaving stories about interconnected histories, the exhibition showcases the objects and ideas that connected at the crossroads of the medieval Sahara and celebrates West Africa’s historic and under recognised global significance.