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 sole caretaker of the pyramids at Meroë, a former capital of the ancient Kingdom of Kush ... by the International ...

Timbuktu is an ancient city in West Africa, south of the formidable Saharan desert. And by ancient, I mean ancient: there’s ...

Judges also found he played no role in the destruction of ancient mausoleums in Timbuktu. Hassan was handed over to the ICC in 2018 by the Malian authorities - five years after French troops ...

The Israeli army has issued new evacuation orders for residents of Baalbek, home to Ancient Roman temples and archaeological ...

expanding into the important trading cities of Timbuktu and Gao. Mali became famous for its trade in gold and the empire became incredibly wealthy. During the medieval period, it is estimated that ...

he went back to their ancient civilizations, the Songhai (sp) empire in Timbuktu in Africa, and said, hey, African Americans haven't always been at the bottom of the barrel, look at their great ...

MOSCOW, August 22. /TASS/. Supporters of armed military extremists have sieged the city of Timbuktu in northern Mali, Al Arabiya reported, citing local sources. According to them, militants have ...

Joshua Hammer is a contributing writer to Smithsonian magazine and the author of several books, including The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu ... 3,000 years ago The ancient plants at the heart ...

We took a bus to Mopti, wanting to have at least some sense of the distance and remoteness with which Timbuktu is synonymous, and picked up the plane there. An ancient, noisy Russian workhorse, the ...

But two weeks later crowds were also out in Kayes in the west, Ségou in south-central and even in the ancient desert city of Timbuktu, on the fringes of the Sahara. And the movement could spread ...