Trading gold and salt have proved to be the most profitable. Where did Mansa Musa wealth go? A mosque would be built in today's Mali on this territory after Musa completed his Hajj in today's Mali.

Getty Images Mansa Musa commissioned the famous Djinguereber Mosque in 1327 Mansa Musa returned from Mecca with several Islamic scholars, including direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad and ...

A mosque would be built in today's Mali on this territory after ... and mosques with his wealth. The net worth of Mansa Musa was estimated to be around $400 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars. It ...

Mansa Musa ruled for the next 25 years and used ... the Middle East and Africa came to live in Mali. Musa turned Sankore mosque into a university and filled it with astronomers, mathematicians ...

Mansa Musa was the legendary ruler of the Mali Empire ... In Timbuktu, al-Sahili is credited with the construction of the Djinguereber Mosque and the Sankore University, although some historians ...

Mansa Musa's wealth was much greater than Augustus ... He also built the Great Mosque in Timbuctu, the oldest mosque south of the Sahara. Rudolph Ware, associate history professor at the ...

He also built the legendary Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu, pictured below, which still stands. After reigning for 25 years, Mansa Musa died in 1337. He was succeeded by his son, Maghan I.