A fact from Ma'adin Ijafen appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 December 2018 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that French explorer Théodore Monod discovered more than 2,000 brass ingots from the 11th or 12th centuries at the Ma'adin Ijafen archaeological site in Mauritania?
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