Timbuktu's Sankore circle copies and writes
At Saharan trade crossroads, Timbuktu's mosques and the Sankore circle sustained a book trade and scholarship in law, astronomy and medicine; hundreds of thousands of manuscripts survive.
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Timbuktu's Sankore circle copies and writes
At Saharan trade crossroads, Timbuktu's mosques and the Sankore circle sustained a book trade and scholarship in law, astronomy and medicine; hundreds of thousands of manuscripts survive.