Mali Culture History and Archaeology

Adobe Mud Brick Ginna House in Ogol Ley, Sanga, Mali
Adobe Mud Brick Ginna House in Ogol Ley, Sanga, Mali, photo taken in 1999 by James Morris.

Dogon, Mali - Sacred Sites - Martin Gray
From anthropologist/wanderer Martin Gray, photographs and some commentary on several Binu shrines, villages, and rock art of the Dogon people.

Gao (Mali) -
The west African kingdom of Gao (or Kawkaw) was established by the 8th century AD, and involved in active trade throughout northern Africa; it's major city became the capital of the Songhai empire in 15th century.

Hamdallahi (Mali)
The capital city of the Islamic Fulani caliphate of Macina (also spelled Massina or Masina), Hamdallahi is a fortified city which was constructed in 1820 and destroyed in 1862.

Jenne-jeno, An Ancient African City
From Susan Keech McIntosh and Roderick J. McIntosh at Rice University, archaeological investigations into this site on the Upper Niger river, first occupied in the 3rd century BC.

Jenné-Jeno
Jenne-Jeno is an Iron age site in Mali, occupied between 250 BC-AD 1400.

Mali Interactive (Jenn�-jeno)
The Mali Interactive Project, led by Roderick McIntosh and Susan Keech McIntosh of Rice University, conducted archaeological research at the site of Jenn�-jeno in 1997, documented in detail on this website.

Mali Interactive Project
The McIntoshes maintained an open web site during their January 1997 field investigations at Jenne-Jeno, and one of the first to do such a thing.

Mosque, Komio, Mali
This beautiful mosque was built of adobe brick and mud in the 20th century, and is part of the architectural style called Butabu.

Timbuktu (Mali) - Archaeology of Timbuktu, Mali
The city of Timbuktu (also spelled Tombouctou or Timbuctoo) is located on the inner delta of the Niger River in the African country of Mali.