The Sankore Mosque (pyramidal building in background) is built of mud with an embedded wooden framework. Construction began in 1324.

Timbuktu residents savor freedom, tales of resistance ... The zealots set up a base in the Ahmed Baba Center, opposite the Sankore Mosque, and used the square for floggings, ...

A view of Timbuktu and the University of Sankoré (Image Source: Drawn by Martin Bernatz (1802–1878) after a sketch by Heinrich Barth (1821-1865)-Public Domain) When it comes to Black colleges ...

A stone’s throw away from Timbuktu’s famed Sankore Mosque is the recently restored mayor’s office. During the occupation, the rebels, and later the Islamists, looted and destroyed regional ...

The Salt Merchant. 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 ...

About a dozen militants reportedly arrived in an armoured four-wheel drive truck, armed with pickaxes and hoes at the 14th century Djingareyber mosque. They then started smashing the tombs ...

As the Malian military tried to retake the storied city of Timbuktu from Islamic extremists, scholars feared for the fate of ancient artifacts and mosques that testify to its historic grandeur ...

The Sankore Mosque in Timbuktu attracted many scholars. (Image credit: Michele Alfieri | Shutterstock) Timbuktu is a city in Mali, in West Africa, that was founded 1,800 years ago.

The Sankore University would be a top preference. Sankore University, also known as Sankore Masjid or University of Timbuktu, is one of three ancient centers of learning in Timbuktu, Mali, West ...

When I was there in 2009, the new library had yet to open, but workmen supervised by international experts, were stripping back layers of ancient mud from the giant Sankore mosque in the centre of ...