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Curious places in Mali
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Economic HistoryTaoudénit Region
Mali's Currency of Salt SlabsTrading outposts in the Sahara Desert that survived purely because they controlled salt deposits that agricultural empires could not produce themselves. In a region where salt was worth its weight in gold, these remote towns held essential leverage.
scienceMopti Region
West Africa's 2,300-Year-Old Stone Enigmas2,300-year-old standing stones erected when Rome was rising - proof that megalithic monument-building wasn't just a European phenomenon. West Africans were arranging massive stones in patterns whose meaning we still can't fully decode.
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