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 ...

Timbuktu was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1988 for its Outstanding Universal ... A Malian ‘Heritage Passport’ was distributed to military personnel, with maps showing the most important ...

"So this is not only Timbuktu's history, it's Africa's history." The U.N.'s World Heritage Committee has "condemned the acts of destruction of mausoleums in the World Heritage property of Timbuktu ...

Ancient Timbuktu also had two things that the rest of the world wanted: salt and gold. While rock salt was a valuable commodity for African traders, it was the gold that interested Europeans.