In the ancient caravan city of Timbuktu, many nights before I encountered the bibliophile or the marabout, or comforted the Green Beret's girlfriend, I was summoned to a rooftop to meet the salt ...

The reconstruction of the Timbuktu mausoleums was one of first cases where destruction of heritage was prosecuted as crime of war, recognising cultural heritage protection as an integral part of ...

“They torched all the important ancient manuscripts," Timbuktu mayor Ousmane Halle said. "The ancient books of geography and science. It is the history of Timbuktu." A worker at the new Ahmed ...

In 2012, Mali was undergoing a grave political and social crisis. The situation was particularly severe in the north, where two of Mali’s four World Heritage sites, Timbuktu and the Tomb of Askia, are ...

Alice Morrison, Arabist and explorer, journeys beneath the veil along Africa's infamous salt roads from Morocco via the Sahara Desert to the legendary city of Gold, Timbuktu.

The accomplishment cannot be overstated. Laing was the first European to reach Timbuktu in recorded history and the first to complete a north-to-south crossing of the Sahara. What happened next is ...