Who are The Moors?

Moors are often seen in European Art with African features: pitch black, frizzled hair, smooth and large face, narrow-necked and thick lips. The Drake Jewel, a rare documented 16th-century jewel, seemed to exhibit a profile of a Black King dominating a white woman’s profile.

In fact, Moors are considered to have advanced in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, architecture, cuisine, medicine, and agriculture that helped to transform Europe and push it into the Renaissance from the dark ages.

Generations of Spanish kings have recently sought to erase this period from public memory. Nevertheless, new archeology has revealed that Moors ruled Al-Andalus for more than 700 years, from 711 A.D. to 1492.