Twin attacks on a Malian army base in the northern city of Timbuktu and in the centre of the country left dozens of soldiers ...

Used by us all to connote a far-flung spot off all the maps, it's somewhere that a ... and for the ancient city of Timbuktu, began last year across an ocean of sand, in Libya.

Timbuktu, that lost city of gold — the end of the earth, terra incognita — where the maps went blank. Thomas Friedman says the world is flat and that every corner of our little planet is ...

The map’s legends describe local Tuareg ... French explorer René Caillié sketched the cityscape of Timbuktu when he visited the city in 1828. The grand mosques, built in the time of Mansa ...

Is the fabled city of Timbuktu about to be rescued ... the manuscripts’ sophisticated astronomical maps and mathematical theory have astonished scholars. An international effort began in ...

The golden city of Timbuktu, like the lost city of Atlantis ... Kryza writes, "easily located on any modern map of Mali, near the center of the country, on the southern edge of the Sahara ...

Attackers targeted a Malian army base on Monday and fired shells at the airport in the northern city of Timbuktu where heavy ...

But its exact location was vague. Maps were of limited use, and the city, to Europeans at least, Timbuktu was considered ‘lost’. Any attempt to find it would be an immense challenge involving ...

F or the Victorians, Timbuktu, a town in central Mali ... This history-cum-travelogue gives a legendary city its due with an abundance of cogent, rich anecdotes, but falls short with a lack ...

But no one and no force of nature, not even the Sahara — whose sands creep up the foundations of the city's homes — has been able to wipe Timbuktu off the map. Somehow the city has survived ...

The ancient city of Timbuktu in Mali is suffering under a months long blockade by Islamist militants as instability grows in the region. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Oct. 5 ...

The heart of ancient Timbuktu’s intellectual life was its ... mostly written by African authors working in the city. Learn more in Africa's Great Civilizations with Henry Louis Gates, Jr ...