July 8th, 2007 by Shenron
Timbuktu is a city in Mali, and it is home to the Qur’anic Sankore University, and other Islamic schools and colleges. Its construction was carried out in the 10th century initially by the nomads called the Tuareg, and it grew to wealth and power because of its prime trade location, along with being a keystone city for the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire, and the Songhai Empire, and reached its pinnacle in the 1500’s. However afterwards marked the decline of the city became the future, and today it has recently been involved in militant conflicts arising from the Tuareg Rebellion which lasted from 1990 to 1996. Tinbuktu’s libraries hold ancient manuscripts and writings dating back to the 1500’s and some earlier, with over a million artifacts – it would be a tragic loss to history if anything happened to it. Today it is impoverished, albeit has an international airport, and came under threat of sands throughout the 2000’s.
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