Monday, January 28, 2013

Timbuktu's disappearing gold



Published on Jan 28, 2013
http://www.euronews.com/ Timbuktu, a city classed as a world heritage site since only 1988, was founded around a thousand years ago by Tuareg nomads. Later it became part of the Mali Empire. Its illustrious mosques and shrines - Djinguereber, Sidi Yahya and Sankore - are among the treasures of Timbuktu.

What has happened to this repository of historic knowledge, or will happen, is very worrying to guardians of scholarship the world over.
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