The site

Djenné-Djenno is one of the oldest urban settlements in sub-Saharan Africa, a city occupied from around 250 BCE to 1400 CE in the inland delta of Mali. Long a center of trade and craft, its ruins are protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It stands as vivid evidence of an indigenous West African urban tradition reaching back more than two thousand years.

Field notes

civilizations

Mali Empire

types

City

occupied

250 BCE — 1,400 CE

country

Mali