Mali Gallery 4 (Timbuktu). (all photos copyright T. Insoll).

(All captions refer to images left to right) (see Completed Field Projects and various papers listed in Publications for details).

1. The Sankore mosque (November 1996).

2. Excavations adjacent to the Sankore mosque (September 1998).

1. The depth of the deposits excavated which only dated back to the 18th century AD (TIM 98 c).

2. Disappearing doorway inside the Sankore mosque (November 1996).

1. Types of characteristic locally produced pottery recovered.

2. Glass, clay, and carnelian beads, and a carnelian bead fragment from the excavations.

1. Bracelets from Timbuktu including examples made of clay, stone, and glass.

2. Tobacco pipes from Timbuktu.

1. Recumbent Merchant Navy seaman's gravestone.

2. Re-erection of one of the gravestones in progress.

3. The restoration work completed.