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still looking for the source of the nile

As a captive in Egypt, Louis IX was on hand to witness the unhappy end of Saladin’s dynasty, when Turan-Shah, the last of the line, was killed by his stepmother’s slaves in the river Nile. For more than a century … Continue reading

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