On his return from Mecca, Musa invited many scholars and architects to travel ... trading routes for salt and gold. In Timbuktu and the neighbouring market city of Djenné, Mansa Musa built ...

Later in 1312, Mansa Musa became ruler. 4. Mansa Musa made a pilgrimage to Mecca and he did not travel lightly Mansa Musa was a devout Muslim, and observed one of the five pillars of Islam by ...

Mansa Musa was the ninth Mansa of the Mali Empire ... It is also said he would give gold to the poor and build mosques on his ...

Mansa Musa, emperor of the Mali Empire ... gifted cities along his route (including Cairo and Medina), and traded gold for souvenirs. It is said that he commissioned the construction of a mosque ...

"Not one to travel on a budget, he brought a caravan stretching as far as the eye could see," Smith reported. The numbers vary, but Mansa Musa's reportedly 60,000-strong caravan was said to ...

But, according to the internet (and we all know the internet is never wrong) there was someone even richer: a Malian gentleman, Mansa Musa the Ninth ... gold staves and en route, every Friday ...