In the years following the pilgrimage, European cartographers visited the Empire of Mali numerous times, hoping to produce early maps of the world. Famously, the Catalan Atlas, produced in 1375 ...

We do know for a fact that Mansa Musa ruled the Mali Empire in the 14th century and ... one of the most important world maps of Medieval Europe. Word of his wealth spread across the Mediterranean.

Mansa Musa has supported and funded science, the arts, literature and architecture and the Empire of Mali was one of the greatest empires in the world. Mansa Musa ruled the Mali Empire during a ...