Articles tagged with: historical documents

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.

Historic Mohave County records rescued - but why did they need saving?

on Dienstag, 24 September 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

Decades of documents were abandoned at Kingman Airport

KINGMAN - Nearly 100 years of Mohave County records would have disappeared into the desert dust if it had not been for the Mohave Museum of History and Arts.