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This is History: A Dynasty to Die For

Empire of Gold | 6. An Emperor’s Legacy

This is History: A Dynasty to Die For

Sony Music

Society & Culture, History

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Find out more about Musa’s incredible legacy in our bonus episode. Subscribe for weekly episodes and ad-free listening. Musa looks to cement his legacy in West Africa with a spectacular project in Timbuktu but first must repay an important debt as the merchants in Cairo grow anxious. A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Written and presented by Luke Pepera Producer - Dominic Tyerman Executive Producer - Louisa Field Production Manager - Jen Mistri Production coordinator: Eric Ryan Marketing - Kieran Lancini Sound Design and Mixing - Amber Devereux Head of Content – Chris Skinner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:52.9

Work starts again in the early morning, when the lighted sky is dull but the air is comfortably

0:59.0

cool. Rising high and obscuring the surrounding landscape are a mass of wooden towers and scaffolds.

1:06.0

Trailing into and around them are lightly clothed workers, leaning camels and donkeys piled high with tools,

1:12.6

timber and sand. Spades, picks and wooden beams stick out of the canvas wrappings like thorns

1:18.9

on a cactus stem. Walking on platforms between the scaffolds are more workers. The dry wood creaks

1:26.2

beneath their footsteps. Their calls reverberate through the

1:29.8

structures. Down below, these sounds intermingle with the camel's moans, donkeys braes and

1:36.0

greetings from one worker to another. Now and then, there are exclamations of anger as one person

1:42.5

gets in another's way or a hastily put-together pack, tumbles from an animal's back, crashing to the hard ground.

1:50.0

Some workers, who are better dressed in cloth robes and holding building plans,

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