Timbuktu is a trove of medieval treasures. But there are fears its heritage could be at risk from armed rebels who have overrun the ancient city.

In the second of a four-part National Geographic Radio Expedition, NPR's Alex Chadwick follows anthropologist Wade Davis to Timbuktu, once a medieval intellectual center and a major center for trade.

A collection of medieval manuscripts from Timbuktu that academics hail as proof of an African scholarly tradition are going on public show on the continent for the first time. IE 11 is not supported.

As it was, an extremist, al-Qaeda-linked militia had already set about demolishing and desecrating many of Timbuktu’s UNESCO-recognized tombs of medieval saints—the puritanical brand of their ...

TIMBUKTU, MALI—Reports yesterday indicated that Islamic militants fleeing Timbuktu in the face of advancing Malian and French forces burned two libraries that were thought to hold some 40,000 ...

Medieval Timbuktu was a wealthy city whose great libraries allowed it to flourish as a center of learning and scholarship. Kane’s compelling intellectual history of West Africa places Timbuktu within ...

Timbuktu is a trove of medieval treasures. But there are fears its heritage could be at risk from armed rebels who have overrun the ancient city.

Timbuktu is a trove of medieval treasures. But there are fears its heritage could be at risk from armed rebels who have overrun the ancient city.