But another of its famous mosques was destroyed, as were shrines that had stood since Timbuktu's golden era during the Mali empire, when the city was a thriving commercial hub and a center of ...

The centuries-old Djingareyber mosque is made mainly of mud and wood Islamist fighters in Timbuktu have destroyed two tombs at the northern Malian city's famous Djingareyber mosque, residents have ...

Alyssa Banta Archivists at Timbuktu's Ahmed Baba Center ... thumb through it and stare in amazement at an illustration of the Great Mosque of Medina. It's the only drawing, besides geometrical ...

A stampede at a famed mosque in Mali's north-western desert city of Timbuktu crushed at least 26 people to death and left many more injured, officials and witnesses said. A hospital source said 16 ...

“Timbuktu’s outstanding earthen architectural wonders that are the great mosques of Djingareyber, Sankore and Sidi Yahia, must be safeguarded,” she said. “Along with the site’s 16 ...

In the second of his reports about Culture at Risk from the African nation of Mali, Jeffrey Brown looks at the effort to save the famed manuscripts of Timbuktu. An historic mosque in Timbuktu on ...

This West African city—long synonymous with the uttermost end of the Earth—was added to the World Heritage List in 1988, many centuries after its apex. Timbuktu was a center of Islamic ...

Militants damaged and removed the sacred door of the Sidi Yahia mosque in 2012 (L), but it was restored and reinstated in September 2016 (R) Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi has pleaded guilty to destroying ...

Starting with the library next to the historic Djingareyber mosque, he began to rebuild what the occupiers had torn down. “When they began their destruction of Timbuktu we, the population ...

A file photo taken on April 10, 2006 shows the Djinguereber mosque of Timbuktu. The Islamists controlling northern Mali on July 10, 2012 destroyed two tombs at the ancient Djingareyber mud mosque ...

Islamist militants in northern Mali today destroyed the 'sacred' door of one of Timbuktu's three ancient mosques after smashing seven tombs of Muslim saints over the weekend, witnesses said.