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The Water Engineers Who Built Timbuktu's Canals
Long before Timbuktu became a center of scholarship and trade, it was a city that could only survive through ingenious water management. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the forgotten hydraulic engineers of the Niger Bend — the men who designed canals, reservoirs, and qanat-like underground channels that sustained the city through drought and siege. Drawing on the Tarikh al-Sudan and recent archaeological surveys, they focus on the 14th- and 15th-century projects commissioned by the Mali emperors and later the Songhai askiya, including the massive canal linking the Niger River to…
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