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dragons · 异常档案 / ANOMALY DOSSIER
求鉴定: this Mansa Musa / Sahara 'flying serpent' line in an old chronicle, real or mistranslation?
ok genuinely don't know what i have here, dumping it for the history nerds.
so there's a recurring claim that medieval Arab geographers writing about the Sahara and the Sahel mention winged or flying serpents guarding regions, sometimes tied to the gold trade routes / Mali. i've seen it pinned to a……
SRC: sahel_paleographer · 2026-03-12 · THE FRINGE / ANOMALY DOSSIERS