Alyssa Banta Archivists at ... The air inside is stale, redolent of mildew and earth. "Regardez," he says. As my eyes adjust to the semidarkness, I take in the scene: cracked brown walls, rusting ...

This event spurred the great dispersal of the Timbuktu libraries. The re­maining collections were scattered among the families who owned them. Some were sealed inside the mud-brick walls of homes ...

The collections of Timbuktu libraries were dispersed. Families who owned private libraries hid their books: Some were sealed inside the mud-brick walls of homes; others were buried in the desert ...

It was five years ago, and I had come to see his family collection of ancient manuscripts, which were stored in a grand house midway down one of Timbuktu’s sand-blown roads. Inside ... on two ...

A less familiar case of cultural rescue features an unlikely hero: a 51-year-old book collector and librarian named Abdel Kader Haidara in the fabled city of Timbuktu, in the West African country ...

For centuries, Timbuktu has existed in the Western imagination as a byword for the most exotic, far-flung place conceivable. Situated on the southern edge of the Sahara, it acquired a near ...

Beyond the reports of beatings, hand-choppings and other grim Shari’a punishments carried out in the ten months Islamists held the historic Malian city of Timbuktu, the fear that gripped many ...

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 ...