🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Jenne-Jeno City Wall Northwest Bastion
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Jenne-Jeno City Wall Northwest Bastion in Mopti, Djenné, Mali is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
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🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Jenne-Jeno City Wall Northwest Bastion in Mopti, Djenné, Mali is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Medieval trans-Saharan (8th–15th c; peak 11th–14th c) · Sanhaja Berber / Tuareg (Kel Essouk) / Songhai
Arid 12 ha Berber warehouse town with 8th-c mosque (among earliest in West Africa) and 750,000 glass beads on salt route.
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Sacred Djenné-Jeno Village West — Djenné-Jeno (57-01) at Djenné-Jeno, Mali is a Chalcolithic (regional) ancient city of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Eastern Djenné-Jeno Village West — Djenné-Jeno (57-23) at Djenné-Jeno, Mali is a Bronze Age (regional) ancient city of the Bronze Age tradition, built c.
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Lower Djenné-Jeno Terrace North — Djenné-Jeno (57-19) at Djenné-Jeno, Mali is a Medieval (regional) ancient city of the Medieval tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for terrace and associated settlement.
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Bio. Iron Age to Medieval (c.250 BCE–1400 CE; peak 400–1200 CE) · Djenné-Djeno culture / Inland Niger Delta Iron Age / Soninke-Bozo
Oldest sub-Saharan city (250 BCE–1400 CE) on Inland Niger Delta: 33 ha tell 8 m high with 69 mounds cluster spanning 4 km, without stone architecture but rich bio-archaeological sequence: slag, rice,…
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Djenné-Djeno culture · Djenné-Djeno (Niger Inland Delta)
Djenné-Djeno in Mopti Region, Mali is a Djenné-Djeno culture ancient city attributed to Djenné-Djeno (Niger Inland Delta) culture. Inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Site (ID 116).