A heavy guilder’s tax was imposed on everything that passed through the empire, in or out. In four centuries, Mali expanded its territory, influence, and culture thanks to a well-trained imperial army ...

Narrator: Musa became the Emperor of Mali, the Mansa ... Timbuktu became the heart of his empire, the centre of trade and culture. News of wealth and learning spread far and wide.

11th century - Empire of Mali becomes dominant force in the upper ... historically important as a focal point of Islamic culture and a trading post on the trans-Saharan caravan route.

Yet the name of the 14th-century ruler of the Empire of Mali, a place where gold was readily ... feet with a spectacular array of ancient artifacts — and, as the title suggests, pieces of ...

After fighting erupted in Mali in 2012, a number of the country’s cultural treasures were hidden to protect them from Islamist militants who wanted to destroy them. But now these artifacts face ...

“Africans knew how to write before many outside Africa did,” said Andogoly Guindo, Mali’s minister of culture. “These manuscripts can throw light on part of Africa’s past.” But ...

For centuries, its northern city of Timbuktu was a key regional trading post and centre of Islamic culture ... 1226-1670 - Mali Empire becomes dominant force in the upper Niger basin following ...

By Zachary Small More than 900 artifacts intercepted in an illegal shipment have been returned to the government of Mali, U.S. officials said on Monday. Homeland Security agents originally ...