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Michael reaches Timbuktu along with a camel train carrying the giant salt blocks that made the city one of the greatest centres of Islamic learning up until the 16th century. He wanders through the rubble that is 21st century Timbuktu to find the Imam who shows him original astronomical textbooks that predate Galileo's discoveries by 200 years.
First Air Date : Oct 13, 2002
Last Air date : Nov 03, 2002
Episode : 4 Episode
Season : 1 Season
Runtime: 60:14 minutes
Studio: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom, Algeria, Gibraltar, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia, Western Sahara
Cast: Michael Palin
