Timbuktu: Top Photos

The legendary gold-and-salt city at the edge of the Sahara that sent scholars to Mecca

A landscape of sand with ridges and shrubs. Mountains on the horizon.
A landscape of sand with ridges and shrubs. Mountains on the horizon. © Angeline A. van Achterberg, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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