Its three great mosques, Djingareyber, Sankore and Sidi Yahia, recall Timbuktu's golden age. Although continuously restored, these monuments are today under threat from desertification.

In Timbuktu, al-Sahili is credited with the construction ... Mansa Musa’s reign is appropriately referred to as the Golden Age of the Mali Empire. He oversaw a period of impressive territorial ...

Timbuktu is known as the “Pearl of the Desert” and “The City of 333 Saints” for the number of Muslim sages buried there during a golden age of Islam. But jihadists who swept into the city ...