Timbuktu! No city in the world conjures such images of romance and adventure. NBC News' Richard Engel journeys to the lost city of gold — the end of the earth, terra incognita — where old maps ...

This West African city—long synonymous with the uttermost end of the Earth—was added to the World Heritage List in 1988, many centuries after its apex. Timbuktu was a center of Islamic ...

Patrolling Timbuktu's maze of mud-brick houses, the French troops quickly lost their way, their jeeps stuck, wheels spinning, in the sand of the ancient Saharan trading town.

TIMBUKTU, Mali – The first sign of change came as our convoy of food aid and medicine pulled up to the last northern town held by the Malian army. The atmosphere was tense as the heavily armed ...

Timbuktu's Treasures Are Being Destroyed As World Watches Helplessly : The Two-Way Muslim extremists are pillaging Sufi tombs and mosques. They're ignoring international protests. To them, the ...