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    Gao-Saney, also spelled Gao-Sane, is an archaeological site near Gao in Mali. It was almost certainly the town known in historical accounts as Sarneh....
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    trading centre, Gao boasts a rich historical heritage in its three urban settlements: Gao Saney, Old Gao and Gao. Excavations in Gao Saney,the oldest settlement...
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  • some Arabic epitaphs on tombstones discovered in 1939 at the cemetery of Gao-Saney (6 km to the east of the city) there are no surviving indigenous written...
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    before being conquered by the Mali Empire in the early 13th century. Gao-Saney became well known among African historians because French administrators...
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    Timbuktu, as well as the Palace of the Djermakoy and Royal palace of Gao-Saney and the Tomb of Askia. In Niamey, where traditional Songhai structures...
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  • L.; Fenn, T.; Gallagher, D.; Chipps Smith, A. (2013), "Excavations at Gao Saney: new evidence for settlement growth, trade, and interaction on the Niger...
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  • the 13th–15th centuries. Similar tombstones have been found in Gao and nearby Gao-Saney. The political and commercial significance of Kukiya will be clarified...
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    the most ornate tombstones found outside Al-Andalus were discovered in Gao-Saney in the African Sahel, testament to the reach of Almoravid influence into...
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    however, has used epigraphic evidence from funerary stelae from Bentiya, Gao-Saney, and Tadmekka to show that reality was far more complex. The funerary...
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    Akhenaten Palermo stone Stele of Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu The Opa Oranmiyan Gao-Saney Burao steles Stone of the Guanches In the Western Hemisphere: Mexico:...
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    information about it comes from an ancient cemetery near a village called Saney, close to Gao. Inscriptions on a few of the tombstones in the cemetery indicate...
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    Sons. pp. 18–19. ISBN 9780470751961. Cissé, Mamadou. "Excavations at Gao Saney: New Evidence for Settlement Growth, Trade, and Interaction on the Niger...
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  • found at Gao-Saney. He theorizes that the Zaghe, followers of Sunni Islam, became known as such, and were the Za's rivals for the throne of Gao until finally...
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  • decorated storage vessels became common. Dia, Mali Djenné-Djenno Tegdaoust Gao-Saney Kukiya, Mali Magnavita, Sonja (2008). "The Oldest Textiles from Sub-Saharan...
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    "The oldest extant writing of West Africa: medieval epigraphs from Essuk, Saney, and Egef-n-Tawaqqast (Mali)", Journal des Africanistes, 60 (2): 65–113...
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