In Timbuktu, copying Arabic manuscripts was once a prestigious occupation. Today, it is a spiritual enterprise that speaks to one man’s heart. omemade twig pens stand like off-duty soldiers in a jar ...

1 of 6 — Men look over ancient manuscripts Tuesday that were destroyed at the Ahmed Baba Institute in Timbuktu. The manuscripts date back to the 13th century. 2 of 6 — The library held about 20,000 ...

SEVARE, Mali – Malian soldiers entered the city of Timbuktu on Monday after Al Qaeda-linked militants fled into the desert having set ablaze a library that held thousands of ancient manuscripts ablaze ...

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SEVARE, MaliSEVARE, Mali — Timbuktu, the fabled desert city where retreating Muslim extremists destroyed ancient manuscripts, was a center of Islamic learning hundreds of years before Columbus landed ...

SEVARE, Mali – Timbuktu, the fabled desert city where retreating Muslim extremists destroyed ancient manuscripts, was a center of Islamic learning hundreds of years before Columbus landed in the ...

AGADEZ, Niger — Booms from rocket launchers and automatic gunfire crackled Sunday around Mali’s fabled town of Timbuktu, known as an ancient seat of Islamic learning, for its 700-year-old mud mosque ...

AGADEZ, Niger - Booms from rocket launchers and automatic gunfire crackled Sunday around Mali's fabled town of Timbuktu, known as an ancient seat of Islamic learning, for its 700-year-old mud mosque ...

One week after Islamic militants fled Timbuktu under French bombing strikes, preservationists are deeply uncertain about how to continue protecting the city’s priceless ancient documents — a conundrum ...

Update at 6:45 a.m. ET, Jan. 31: New reports from Timbuktu indicate that "most manuscripts were saved." Our original post: These photos from Timbuktu, Mali, on Tuesday confirmed what many had feared: ...

AGADEZ, Niger (AP) – Booms from rocket launchers and automatic gunfire crackled Sunday around Mali’s fabled town of Timbuktu, known as an ancient seat of Islamic learning, for its 700-year-old mud ...