🇳🇪 Niger · Archaeological wonder
Bura Culture (Bura-Asinda-Sikka)
Late Iron Age (3rd–13th c CE) · Bura
834-tomb iron funerary field 3rd–13th c with equestrian terra-cotta sculptures and urn spears.
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🇳🇪 Niger · Archaeological wonder
Late Iron Age (3rd–13th c CE) · Bura
834-tomb iron funerary field 3rd–13th c with equestrian terra-cotta sculptures and urn spears.
🇳🇪 Niger · Ancient city
Medieval (10th–16th c) · Tuareg / Songhai / Hausa copper miners
15-km 600-furnace copper metropolis visited by Ibn Battuta 1353 with Kufic mosque 20 m.
🇳🇪 Niger · Ancient city
Iron Age to Medieval (500 BCE–1600 CE) · Tuareg / Hausa / pre-Tuareg herders
Salt-production town with 3,500 clay pans from 500 BCE and iron horizon, twin of Azelik copper.
🇳🇪 Niger · Ancient city
Medieval Trans-Saharan (10th–15th c. CE) · Tuareg / Songhai / Sanhaja
Copper-mining metropolis visited by Ibn Battuta (1353) with 200 mine shafts.
🇳🇪 Niger · Ancient city
Late Medieval / Tuareg / Songhai · Tuareg (Kel Air) / Songhai tributary
Paired Saharan stations: Agadez (c.1400 Tuareg sultanate capital with 27 m mudbrick minaret) and medieval Takedda copper industrial estate (14th c, Ibn Battuta 1353: 'copper mine of Takadda') 150 km…