A cynic would say that the museum well is representative of Timbuktu’s lost glory. It’s dry, with an old crankshaft lying on the sand at the bottom.

As militants sought to destroy the valuable scholarly manuscripts, Malian researchers and their neighbors spirited them away or hid them in their homes.

This storied African city grew from a nomads’ camp into a wealthy cosmopolitan center of wisdom and learning enriched by trade in gold and salt.

In 2012, Islamist militants overran northern Mali, and an al Qaeda affiliate took control of Timbuktu and started destroying things. Some of the ancient structures, dating back to when Timbuktu ...

The museum will display tens of thousands of Timbuktu’s books to the world, and, its backers hope, shatter any lingering notion that Africa has no historic literary tradition of its own.

“Welcome to Timbuktu, in the middle of nowhere.” Everyone greeted us with this slogan, a sign of the burgeoning tourist industry. Did the Timbuktu Chamber coin the phrase?This once-bustling metropolis ...

Militants had controlled the fabled Malian city for 10 month, but offered no resistance to French and Malian troops marching north ...

French-led troops take control of the airport and roads leading to Timbuktu.

From Timbuktu, with love Over 800,000 select manuscripts from this historic city are travelling to raise awarness on Africa’s written heritage ...

Reports of mass looting at Sudan's National Museum amid the ongoing civil war have shocked the cultural heritage community. Ikhlas Abdel-Latif Ahmed, head of museums at Sudan's national ...

Fleeing Islamist extremists torched a library containing historic manuscripts in Timbuktu, the mayor said Monday, as French and Malian forces closed in on Mali's fabled desert city.