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Profile: Timbuktu, once a flourishing cultural and trading center, today is a ghost of its former self

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The latest National Geographic Radio Expedition is to a legendary site in West Africa--Timbuktu, in present-day Mali. Europeans sought its riches for centuries, but remotely situated at the southern edge of the Sahara desert and far up the Niger River, Timbuktu remained isolated, and in many ways it still is. NPR's Alex Chadwick ...

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