Timbuktu! No city in the world conjures such images of romance and adventure. NBC News' Richard Engel journeys to the lost city of gold — the end of the earth, terra incognita — where old maps ...

Foreign Policy's Peter Chilson gives a short history of the ancient, iconic Malian city and explains why it now faces imminent destruction. ... Timbuktu, Lost City. July 11, 2012 9:37 AM ET. From ...

Published Sep 03, 2012 at 1:00 AM EDT Updated Sep 02, 2012 at 6:16 PM EDT. A traditional mud building in Timbuktu, circa 1990. Chris Rainier / Corbis ...

Twin attacks on a Malian army base in the northern city of Timbuktu and in the centre of the country left dozens of soldiers dead, as well as at least a dozen assailants, security sources and ...

For some, the name Timbuktu might conjure up romantic visions of golden treasures hidden away in a so-called lost city in northwest Africa. While these ideas may be entrancing, they do not capture ...

Attackers targeted a Malian army base on Monday and fired shells at the airport in the northern city of Timbuktu where heavy gunfire was heard, security and local officials and residents said.A ...

Malian soldiers wait at a checkpoint near Sevare on January 27, 2013. French-led troops were advancing on Mali's fabled desert city of Timbuktu on Sunday after capturing a string of other towns in ...

The golden city of Timbuktu, like the lost city of Atlantis, occupies a large place in the world's mythology, but resemblances pretty much end there. Atlantis was Plato's metaphor for the ideal ...

Sociolingo posts an old map of Timbuktu, Mali: “Here is an old map of the ancient city of Timbuktu from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas.” Global Voices stands out as ...

With streets apparently paved with gold, fabulous riches and dazzling wealth, in a golden age of exploration there were few cities on earth to match the intriguing lure of Timbuktu. Distant and ...

Late in the afternoon of April 20, 1828, "just as the sun was touching the horizon," as he later described it, a young Frenchman, barely 29, walked into Timbuktu disguised as an Arab, wearing long ...