Yet Timbuktu's isolation has become a bit less ... thumb through it and stare in amazement at an illustration of the Great Mosque of Medina. It's the only drawing, besides geometrical patterns ...

and an image of builders plastering the Great Mosque of Djenné, a Unesco world heritage site about 500km (310 miles) south of Timbuktu. Image source, Brian David Melnyk/ Google Arts and Culture ...

An historic mosque in Timbuktu on the edge of the Sahara Desert ... it was Haidara who organized a rescue mission, smuggling the great majority of the manuscripts 400 miles over land and by ...

"Currently the Islamists are busy destroying two tombs of Timbuktu's great Djingareyber mosque. They are shooting in the air to chase away the crowd, to scare them," one witness said. "The two ...

They'd also broken open a sealed door on the 15th-century Sidi Yahya mosque, which local tradition ... (Jeppie also reports that, so far, Timbuktu's great collections of Islamic manuscripts ...

Faith and studyBuilt with mud bricks by the great Mali emperor Mansa Musa, the 14th-century Djinguereber mosque is Timbuktu’s oldest standing building. Long revered as a place of learning ...

"Currently the Islamists are busy destroying two tombs of Timbuktu's great Djingareyber mosque. They are shooting in the air to chase away the crowd, to scare them," one witness said earlier as the ...

Minister of Culture of Mali Fadima Toure Diallo appeals for the preservation of heritage in Mali, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, July 3, 2012, with one of the city landmarks, equestrian ...