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.

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 ...

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.

Fabled Timbuktu these days is a small dusty town, but proud of its noble heritage as a center of Islamic culture, art and medieval scholarship. One of the manuscripts rescued by Abdul Kader ...

Librarian Abdel Kader Haidara organized a smuggling operation to keep centuries-old manuscripts out of the hands of al-Qaida. Joshua Hammer wrote about it in The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu.

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, 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 ...

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.