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Timbuktu: Where gold met manuscripts

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Timbuktu: Where gold met manuscripts
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Then I raised My voice and cried, “Wide Afric, doth thy sun Lighten, thy hills enfold a city as fair As those which starred the night o’ the elder world? Or is the rumor of thy Timbuctoo A dream as frail as those of ancient time?” — Alfred Lord Tennyson“Really? That’s a real place?” I hear some of you ask. Timbuktu has become a synonym for a place far beyond the pale of human civilisation. For example, when I moved to a somewhat ‘remote’ (no longer so!) location in Bengaluru, a friend of mine as

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