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Timbuktu's famous universities mark the city as a center of learning and sharing of ideas.
Timbuktu has a reputation in Western society as a distant, mysterious city. But it is a real place, and is back in the news after Tuareg rebels seized the city and implemented sharia. Can you separate Timbuktu's myth from reality?
In South America's Amazon basin. |
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In Mali, at the edge of the Sahara desert. |
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In Tibet, high in the Kunlun mountain range. |
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Timbuktu is a myth – it doesn't really exist. |
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