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In 2012 fundamentalist Islamists took over the city of Timbuktu, Mali. Fearing for the safety of hundreds of thousands of ancient manuscripts, some dating from the 11th Century, a group of librarians and preservationists smuggled between 200,000 and 400,000 manuscripts from Timbuktu to the Malian capital of Bamako.

Since that time, the NGO SAVAMA-DCI ("Sauvegarde et Valorization des Manuscripts pour la defense de la Culture Islamique" in French, translated to English as "Association for the Protection and Promotion of Manuscripts and the Defense of Islamic Culture"), has worked to clean, protect, restore, digitize, and eventually translate hundreds of thousands of manuscripts.

This photo shows a worker gently cleaning the dust and other contaminants off one of the ancient manuscripts.

For more information on the group and their work, see my story at <a href="https://stories.fischerfotos.com/preserving-malis-historic-manuscripts" rel="noreferrer nofollow">stories.fischerfotos.com/preserving-malis-historic-manusc...</a>
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Author Mark Fischer
Camera location12° 39′ 51.9″ N, 7° 59′ 00.41″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Mark Fischer at https://flickr.com/photos/80854685@N08/48522180467. It was reviewed on 2 May 2021 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0.

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