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Timbuktu’s Ancient Manuscripts Are Being Saved but Not Translated

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TIMBUKTU — Down the road from the 700-year-old iconic Djinguereber mosque in this north-central Malian city lies the Al Qadi library, a private, family-owned collection holding hundreds of manuscripts from nearly a millennium ago. The manuscripts are priceless treasures of…
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Saving Timbuktu’s Manuscripts, One Ancient Page at a Time

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Technicians working for Savama, digitizing the manuscripts.
BAMAKO, Mali — The deliberate burning of thousands of ancient manuscripts by the Islamic jihadists who seized Timbuktu and other parts of northern Mali in 2012 dealt an emotional blow to the culture and scholars there and far beyond….
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