EditorialOusmane Sarmoye Ascofare carefully photographs a page at the headquarters of SAVAMA-DCI, an organization that works to preserve the Timbuktu manuscripts in Bamako, Mali, on March 11, 2022. (Nicolas Remene/The New York Times)
EditorialAmi Walet Idrissa, right, and Bintou Walet Abdou, who are from Timbuktu, in a suburb of Bamako, Mali, March 16, 2022. (Nicolas Remene/The New York Times)
EditorialOskar Lenz (1848-1925). Austro-German geologist and mineralogist. He led several expeditions to the African continent to carry out geological studies. He visited the legendary city of Timbuktu. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espa?ola y Americana, 1881.
EditorialVue d'une partie de la ville de Temboctou, prise du sommet d'une colline, à l'est-nord-est. Engraving of Timbuktu formerly also spelled Timbuctoo and Timbuktoo, a city in the West African nation of Mali. Atlas. Journal d'un voyage a? Temboctou et a?...
EditorialWomen of Sudan in striped robes, costumes of women of Timbuktu, Mali, and Tibbo women of the Sahara in full dress with headdress, necklaces and robes. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen A...
EditorialOskar Lenz (1848-1925). Austro-German geologist and mineralogist. He led several expeditions to the African continent to carry out geological studies. He visited the legendary city of Timbuktu. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espa?ola y Americana, 1881.
EditorialView of the city of Timbuktu, Mali. Drawn by the French explorer Auguste Rene Caillie in 1828. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Florence, 1834.
EditorialAuguste Rene Caillie 1 pretending to study the Koran to sketch the mosque in Timbuktu, Mali, 3, with woman in cotton robe and naked child with palm frond 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Pe...
EditorialVue d'une partie de la ville de Temboctou, prise du sommet d'une colline, à l'est-nord-est. Engraving of Timbuktu formerly also spelled Timbuctoo and Timbuktoo, a city in the West African nation of Mali. Atlas. Journal d'un voyage a? Temboctou et a?...
EditorialWomen of Sudan in striped robes, costumes of women of Timbuktu, Mali, and Tibbo women of the Sahara in full dress with headdress, necklaces and robes. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen A...