Timbuktu’s beginnings go back to the 1100s when a group of Tuareg wanderers from northwest Africa made a temporary camp near ...

Timbuktu is also no longer immune to the ideological ... based paper purchased from traders who crossed the desert from Morocco and Algeria. Ink and dyes were extracted from desert plants, and ...

Alice Morrison, Arabist and explorer, journeys beneath the veil along Africa's infamous salt roads from Morocco via the Sahara Desert to the legendary city of Gold, Timbuktu.

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