🇲🇱 Mali · Archaeological wonder
Kukiya, Mali
Kukiya is an archaeological site and ancient city on the banks of the Niger River in present-day Mali. It was an early capital of the Songhai people, preceding the founding of the city of Gao.
🇲🇱 Mali · Archaeological wonder
Teghaza
Islamic Saharan (10th–16th c. CE; peak 13th–15th c.) · Sanhaja Berber / Songhai
Teghaza (Taghaza) is a Saharan salt-mining ghost town on Sebkha salt pan 200 km north of Timbuktu, medieval (10th–16th c.) salt slab quarrying centre described by Ibn Battuta 1352 and Leo Africanus…
🇲🇱 Mali · Archaeological wonder
Dia, Mali
Dia (Jà) is a small town and seat of the commune of Diaka in the Cercle of Ténenkou in the Mopti Region of southern-central Mali.
🇲🇱 Mali · Archaeological wonder
Kawinza
Kawinza is a village and archaeological site in Niafunké Cercle, Timbuktu Region, Mali. It was excavated extensively from 1984 by Téréba Togola, Michael Rainbault and Roderick and Susan McIntosh.
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Essouk-Tadmekka – Saharan Caravan City
Trans-Saharan caravan (c. 700–1400 CE; Almoravid market) · Berber–Tuareg (Tadmekka Sanhaja) / Arab caravan
Mysterious stone city in Saharan piedmont, Essouk is Tadmekka the 9th c Arab-described 'Tadmakkat' gold city with 450×250 m stone houses, mosque and 11th c Arabic stelae, on Niger–...