but between six and nine hundred years ago all these fragments were thrown away in one place - on the same beach in East Africa. They were found at the bottom of a low crumbling cliff at Kilwa ...

At Kilwa, they litter the beach and show up in the plough furrows of modern inhabitants, testifying to that town’s long and intensive involvement in Indian Ocean trade. These sherds come from a ...

Kilwa and Songo Mnara represent the southernmost ... based on its small size and location on the beach. But once the site was excavated, it presented an architectural conundrum.

Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara were Swahili trading cities and ... Key management issues include climate change impact due to increased waveaction and beach erosion; encroachment on the site by humans ...

but between six and nine hundred years ago all these fragments were thrown away in one place - on the same beach in East Africa. They were found at the bottom of a low crumbling cliff at Kilwa ...

"One of our archaeologists, he found a coin on the surface of the beach on Elcho Island … and it's the same size [as the Kilwa coins]," amateur historian Mike Owens said. "There are a number of ...