Ruins of Loropéni
Burkina Faso's first UNESCO World Heritage Site: laterite stone perimeter walls up to six metres tall, built without mortar and 80% intact after roughly a thousand years, enclosing a settlement of the Lohron or Koulango peoples who controlled the extraction and trade of gold along the trans-Saharan trade network at its height.
Dated events and their evidence
- 1000 CE mainstream
the walled enclosure is established (radiocarbon dating, earliest phase) source - 1400 CE mainstream
settlement flourishes as a centre of the gold trade (14th-17th century) source
Where
10.0631° N, 3.5936° W
Sources
- https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/loropeni-ruins-burkina-faso.html
- https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1225/
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