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The treasures of Timbuktu ( an ancient, historic, intellectual center in Africa that was the site of the first university in the world) are under assault and in jeopardy of being lost to us. Interestingly, the city was built up on a site where a woman stood sentry.
"According to lore, the town [of Timbuktu] sprung up in the 12th or 13th century around a well that was guarded by a woman known as Buktu. At the crossroads of great Saharan trade routes, it rapidly became a center for the exchange of salt, gold, and slaves. Leo Africanus, the 16th century Moorish traveler turned Papal diplomat, described a city brimming not only with 'many wells containing sweet water,' but a town where the 'the inhabitants are very rich.'" Time World Global Spin
globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/2012/04/0/malis-cris-terror-stalks-the-historic-treasures-of-timbuktu
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