🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient city
Begho North Quarter (Brong-Akan Gold Sector)
Medieval-Bono (13th–18th c. CE) · Brong-Akan (Bono)
North craft quarter of Begho gold entrepôt with gold-weights and bloomery.
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🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient city
Medieval-Bono (13th–18th c. CE) · Brong-Akan (Bono)
North craft quarter of Begho gold entrepôt with gold-weights and bloomery.
🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient city
Late Iron Age / Akan · Akan (Brong) / Wangara / Kramo
Iron-curtain city of 10,000+ (11th–18th c) at Akan–Niger gold, kola, cloth and Saharan salt crossroads.
🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient city
Akan gold trade (c. 1000–1750 CE; peak 14th–17th c) · Akan (Bron) / Hausa Wangara merchants
Sprawling 45 ha Akan trading city with four ethnic quarters (Brong, Kramo Wangara Muslim, artisans, market), producing brass crucibles and glass beads for gold–kola caravans to Jen...