The University of Cape Town said on Wednesday that most of the manuscripts that were believed to have been destroyed this week by Islamist rebels fleeing the Malian city of Timbuktu were safe after ...

Watch these videos from playwright and director Emilio Williams, a former CNN producer who accompanied Robert Murphy on his 2013 visit to Mali: * "Crisis: The Kids of Mali," which highlights the work ...

JOHANNESBURG – A South African university says a limited number of manuscripts in the fabled city of Timbuktu in Mali were damaged or stolen by Islamist extremists as they fled the city. The ...

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 and ...

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.

A metaphor for mysterious, inaccessible places… A place you thought does not exist, but it does. Timbuktu is a city in the West African country of Mali situated 20 kilometers north of the River Niger ...

For centuries, Timbuktu has been home to one of the largest collections of ancient Islamic manuscripts in the world. Now there are fears that those priceless treasures may have been destroyed by ...

In what's believed to be a first, the International Criminal Court in The Hague is contemplating a case that treats the destruction of cultural heritage as a war crime. The charges date to 2012, when ...

For centuries, Timbuktu has existed in the Western imagination as a byword for the most exotic, far-flung place conceivable. Situated on the southern edge of the Sahara, it acquired a near-mythical ...

An extremist group has seized the African city of Timbuktu, systematically destroying its monuments. The West African city of Timbuktu used to be one of Africa's richest and most important, a nexus of ...

JOHANNESBURGJOHANNESBURG — Islamist extremists damaged or stole only a limited number of manuscripts in Timbuktu in Mali before they fled the fabled desert city, a South African university said ...