(Reuters) - The al Qaeda-linked Islamist fighters who have used pick-axes, shovels and hammers to shatter earthen tombs and shrines of local saints in Mali's fabled desert city of Timbuktu say they ...

The mudbrick mosque Djingareyber dates back to 1325 CE. Photo: Erwin Boldwidt The 15th century tombs and cultural relics of Timbuktu, a key trade and social center of the ancient world, are being ...

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For centuries, Timbuktu has been home to one of the largest collections of ancient Islamic manuscripts in the world. Now there are fears that those priceless treasures may have been destroyed by ...

TIMBUKTU, Mali — The glittering slabs of white salt had been brought here across more than 400 miles of Sahara, as they always have. Al-Hussein Boubakar, their purveyor, was haggling with a customer, ...

Medieval Timbuktu was a wealthy city whose great libraries allowed it to flourish as a center of learning and scholarship. Kane’s compelling intellectual history of West Africa places Timbuktu within ...

Sidi Lamine gently opens the creaky wooden door that leads to his collection of manuscripts. Housed in a dark, windowless room, hundreds of medieval texts line handsome wooden bookshelves that reach ...

An extremist group has seized the African city of Timbuktu, systematically destroying its monuments. The West African city of Timbuktu used to be one of Africa's richest and most important, a nexus of ...