Mali is home to an ancient, wealthy empire that included one of the richest men to ever live, Mansa Musa, and the legendary city of Timbuktu. Today, it is home to civil struggles, and some of the instability makes these ancient sites...

This video from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly features Timbuktu, one of the most remote and inaccessible places on the planet and a former thriving center of Islamic learning. [5:52]

Watch, download or read the transcript of Access Islam's video on the remote place of Timbuktu, once a center of Islamic religion. [5:53]

Video [3:15] describing the exploration and lost civilizations of the world before 1492, including Musa I of Mali, Timbuktu and Zheng He.