SOURCE: CNN.com
5-28-13
tags: CNN, Africa, Mali, Timbuktu, manuscripts
Read entire article at CNN.com
comments powered by Disqus
5-28-13
Timbuktu's manuscripts face new threat
Breaking Newstags: CNN, Africa, Mali, Timbuktu, manuscripts
(CNN) -- For the second time in five months, Timbuktu's treasured collection of ancient manuscripts is under threat.
Earlier this year, it was thought that most of the 300,000 precious documents were destroyed by Islamic fundamentalists when the northern Mali conflict entered the fabled city.
But as it turns out, only 4,000 documents were burned by the rebels. The rest were smuggled out of Timbuktu six months before the incursion by a team of local families who have long safeguarded their city's famous library, often in their own homes....
comments powered by Disqus
News
- O'Mara: Politics and Commercial Pressure, not ChatGPT, are the Threats
- Why are the Dems Denying DC Self-Government?
- Anastasia Curwood on Shirley Chisholm's Childhood Heroes
- After Studying Housing Discrimination, This Historian is Fighting it in Court
- How Textbook Publishers are Censoring the Story of Rosa Parks to Sell Books in Florida