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Episode Details: Absolute Desert
Absolute Desert
Series: Sahara with Michael Palin
Season: Season 1
Episode Number: 3
Air Date:
Duration: 60 min
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.
Cast and Guests
Michael Palin
Writer