Circle of Timbuktu -- Timbuktu, MaliTimbuktu was an intellectual and spiritual capital and a center for the propagation of Islam throughout Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Its three great mosques, Djingareyber, Sankore and Sidi Yahia, recall Timbuktu's golden age.
Although continuously restored, these monuments are today under threat from desertification.
Why it is in danger: Timbuktu was placed on UNESCO's list of endangered World Heritage Sites in June 2012 after Islamist group Ansar Dine destroyed tombs that were shrines to Muslim saints.
An Ansar Dine spokesman said that all shrines in the city, including the remaining World Heritage sites, would be destroyed because the group considered them to be examples of idolatry.
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