Mansa Musa's net worth, which positions him as the wealthiest man in history is still debatable. As the richest possessor of ...

His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, who has died aged 88, combined his role as 49th Imam and spiritual leader of 12-15 ...

He built many great libraries, mosques and palaces across the empire. There were more than 400 cities in the Niger Delta. Timbuktu became ... Musa turned Sankore mosque into a university and ...

John J. Miller is joined by Nora Berend of the University of Cambridge to discuss The Poem of the Cid. National Review’s national correspondent and professor at Hillsdale College, John J. Miller ...

“It is a head turner. This mosque has elaborate Chinese architectural features inspired by the Great Mosque of Xi’an in China,” he said, adding that Xi’an was the capital of Shaanxi provinc ...

In Ken Prestininzi’s “Timbuktu, USA,” Secretary of State Kelly Kilkenny has spent much of her career in the upper echelons of power, though to some she’s known as the Great Virgin Who Refused.

They created centres of learning and culture at Timbuktu and Djenné ... Image caption, The Obas of Benin lived in a great palace decorated with detailed bronze work. Bronze panels, like this ...

STOCKHOLM, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Sweden's government on Monday accused a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Stockholm of being a platform for Iranian spying against Sweden and the Iranian diaspora. Sweden's ...

This is neither new nor necessarily bad. “Presidents who go down in the history books as ‘great’ are those who reach for power, who assert their authority to the limit,” the presidential ...