Timbuktu became the heart of his ... the Middle East and Africa came to live in Mali. Musa turned Sankore mosque into a university and filled it with astronomers, mathematicians and legal scholars.

Ancient Mali was essentially a trade nation ... The mosques and libraries in Timbuktu were extremely extravagant. It is quite possible that it was the world's first university. This ancient empire ...

In the ancient caravan city of Timbuktu ... governments have advised their citizens to avoid Timbuktu as well as the rest of northern Mali. The threats originate from a disparate collection ...