Directory of Mali Resources

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Africa Losing Priceless Relics

http://www-cgi.cnn.com/WORLD/9510/mali_relics/index.html
From CNN, but secrets buried in Djenne could be lost forever as antiquities are being plundered and sold to international art dealers.
Floods Damage Ancient Timbuktu

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3093660.stm
From BBC, heavy rains in Mali destroy almost 200 old mud buildings in the desert city of Timbuktu amid fears of more flooding.
Inland Niger Delta

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ind_1/hd_ind_1.htm
Article on the history of this region and the ancient city of Jenne-jeno or Djenne-jeno, which was first populated in about 250 B.C.
Mali Interactive

http://anthropology.rice.edu/maliinteractive.html
Archeological project in Jenné-jeno, Mali.
The Dogon Blacksmiths

http://anthro.unige.ch/galerie/inagina/index.gb.html
In Mali, on the cliffs inhabited by the Dogon, an ethnoarchaeologist and a cameraman participated in the reduction of iron ore.
Timbuktu

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/119
UNESCO World Heritage site. Includes photographs, maps, a description of this centre for the propagation of Islam throughout Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries.

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