Episode 8: Mali To Egypt
| # | Location | Treasure | Image | Brief description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56 | Djenné, Mali | Great Mosque of Djenné | The Great Mosque of Djenné is the largest mud brick or adobe building in the world and is considered by many architects to be the greatest achievement of the Sudano-Sahelian architectural style, albeit with definite Islamic influences. | |
| 57 | Sanga, Mali | Dogon rock paintings | Some people say they date from the 13th century. Though, they are refreshed on a regular basis because the circumcision ceremony takes place
every three years. |
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| 58 | Sanga, Mali | Dogon mask | These masks are use during dance. They are sacred objects, too powerful for ordinary mortals to hold or even to know where they are kept. | |
| 59 | Tripoli, Libya | Leptis Magna | Leptis Magna, also known as Lectis Magna (or Lepcis Magna as it is sometimes spelled), also called Lpqy or Neapolis, was a prominent city of the Roman Empire. Its ruins are located in Al Khums, Libya, 130 km east of Tripoli, on the coast where the Wadi Lebda meets the sea. | |
| 60 | Gasr Al-Hajj, Libya | Berber granary | It's a building created for storage and preservation of food. It's built from local materials like stone, gypsum, plaster. | |
| 61 | Egypt | Great Pyramid of Giza | The Great Pyramid of Giza (also called the Pyramid of Khufu and the Pyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt, and in a historical irony is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and the only one that survives substantially intact. | |
| 62 | Cairo, Egypt | Tutankhamun's burial mask | An incredible piece of work. Beautiful in detail and in form. On the front there is the image of the vulture and the cobra. | |
| 63 | Luxor, Egypt | Nefertari's tomb | Nefertari's tomb is closed to the public. Inside it are the most beautiful and best preserved wall paintings ever discovered in Egypt. The images here tell the story of Nefertari's journey after death, to the Underworld and then to rebirth. | |
| 64 | Edfu, Egypt | Edfu temple | The Temple of Edfu is an ancient Egyptian temple located on the west bank of the Nile in the city of Edfu which was known in Greco-Roman times as Apollonopolis Magna, after the chief god Horus-Apollo. It is one of the best-preserved temples in Egypt. The temple, dedicated to the falcon god Horus, was built in the Ptolemaic period between 237 and 57 BCE. |
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