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Alyssa Banta (www.alyssabanta.com) Preservationists are raising funds to translate collections (one of the largest private holdings in Timbuktu) into English and French. "The manuscripts show that ...

The Book Smugglers Of Timbuktu by Charlie English is a painstakingly ... s librarians and archivists to save its cache of ancient manuscripts. But it’s also more than that: It appears to warn ...

It is a practiced soliloquy but a logical point of view for a man whose family controls Timbuktu's largest private library, with some 22,000 manuscripts dating back to the 11th century and volumes ...

In 2012, several buildings in Timbuktu, including 14 of the 16 mausoleums which form part of the World Heritage site, were destroyed within the context of armed conflict and civil unrest. Attacks also ...

Yet, in the last days of dwindling wealth – the year of Columbus, 1492 – Timbuktu enjoyed its finest hour. The Moors, expelled from Spain by Queen Isabella’s army, gathered up the precious libraries ...

Timbuktu’s famous writings are thought to be in the hundreds of thousands. Many of them date from the 1300s to 1500s when the city was a major Islamic learning and trading center.

Father Columba has watched on in horror as the Islamic State have systematically destroyed the Sufi shrines in Timbuktu and, in 2014, 4,000 of these manuscripts were burnt. It is a race against ...

Ali Baba, a worker at the institute, told Sky News that more than 3,000 manuscripts had been destroyed. The recovery of Timbuktu followed the swift capture by French and Malian forces of Gao on ...

In April 2021, the Government of Mali and UNESCO each received a symbolic euro from the International Criminal Court (ICC) as reparation for the damage inflicted on the people of Mali and the ...