Articles tagged with: Timbuktu

Rescuing the priceless manuscripts of Timbuktu

on Dienstag, 10 März 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

For centuries, Timbuktu was a center of learning, home to a university and a vast collection of manuscripts containing priceless written records of Islamic and African history. When, a few years ago, jihadists invaded the city and set about to destroy its cultural treasures, one man organized a mission to smuggle out most of the manuscripts. Jeffrey Brown reports from Mali.