(Bloomberg) — Weather station 61223 had been faithfully recording data on the temperature, wind and rainfall in the legendary city of Timbuktu for 115 years before March 30, 2012. On that day, the ...

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 ...

Scholars are rushing to rescue the medieval manuscripts that put one of the world's most remote towns on the map. Saving Africa's ... for West Africa. Now, scared that Timbuktu’s 50,000 or ...

Fabled Timbuktu, once the site of the ... A Catalan map of the world depicts him with thick lips and holding a scepter. ... "Africa has repeatedly been portrayed as culturally inferior," says ...

Africa Is the Continent Without Climate Data. A lack of weather stations is holding back climate science. ... wind and rainfall in the legendary city of Timbuktu for 115 years before March 30, 2012.

The very name evokes mystery, riches, faraway places and unknown lands. Timbuktu – the forbidden city in the heart of Africa. It was founded in 1080. And within 300 years, it had become one o… ...

"These tombs and these historic sites in Timbuktu go back to the 15th century," Ofeibea added. "So this is not only Timbuktu's history, it's Africa's history." ...

The heart of ancient Timbuktu’s intellectual life was its libraries. The heart of Timbuktu’s intellectual life was its libraries. Between the 14th and the 17th centuries, they acquired ...

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For centuries, manuscripts such as these remained some of Africa's best-kept secrets. Western explorers who passed through Timbuktu in the early 1800s, some disguised as Muslim pilgrims, made no ...