Ruins of gedi

From 13th to 17th centuries Gedi was a thriving but oddly secretive community hidden away in a jungly setting in what was then a remote nowhere between Malindi and Mombasa of Kenya. The inhabitants, who were Muslim, traded with people from all over the world (beads from Venice, coins from China, iron lamp from India, scissors from Spain were found in the excavations). But nowhere in any written records in any language does Gedi or its people appear. Somehow Gedi interacted with the world without being noticed, no one knows how it managed to escape attention or why it chose to.