From the moment the followers of Muhammad came roaring out of Arabia, in A.D. 633, they've cherished beautiful things. An exhibition that just closed at the Metropolitan Museum in New York showed ...

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.

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… ...

Increasingly fearful residents of Timbuktu are enduring acute shortages amid a weeks-long blockade of the historic Malian city by Islamist jihadis.

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 ...

Rare manuscripts enlighten Timbuktu, now Brussels In 2012 Tuareg and Islamic separatists took over northern Mali, imposing draconian-style Islam on an already devout people. The invaders destroyed ...