Timbuktu — the forbidden city in the heart of Africa ... the city’s latest trade. “This is the first place of Timbuktu,” said Mahamoudou ... The research center’s 13,000 Arabic ...

Timbuktu – the forbidden city in the heart of Africa. It was founded in 1080. And within 300 years, it had become one of the era’s most important trading points, an influential Islamic ...

Timbuktu is in Mali, a West African country bordered by seven others, ... very much like the end-of-the world trading outpost and learning center it once was — minus the prosperity.

During its golden age, Timbuktu was a thriving desert trading town at the heart of important trade routes for gold and salt, and a major intellectual and spiritual center, which played a key role ...

TIMBUKTU WAS ONCE a crossroads of the African continent and the Muslim world, a vibrant center of commerce and trade, spirituality and mysticism, knowledge and learning. Since last week, however ...

Timbuktu is a city in Mali, in West Africa, that was founded 1,800 years ago. ... However, for centuries this was a major trading hub and a center for scholarship.

The Treasures of Timbuktu Scholars in the fabled African city, once a great center of learning and trade, are racing to save a still emerging cache of ancient manuscripts ...

Timbuktu was a center of the manuscript trade, with traders bringing Islamic texts from all over the Muslim world. Despite occupations and invasions of all kinds since then, scholars managed to ...

(Reuters) – The Malian town of Timbuktu, recaptured from Islamist rebels by French and Malian troops, is an ancient center of Islamic culture that grew rich in the 14th and 15th centuries as a ...

Why Timbuktu's true treasure is its libraries. This storied African city grew from a nomads’ camp into a wealthy cosmopolitan center of wisdom and learning enriched by trade in gold and salt.

As Timbuktu opens to outsiders and word of its treasures spreads, so too does the interest in the books from outside collectors. In some ways, saving these old manuscripts could imperil them further.