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They Smuggled a Library Past Militants 📜 #Shorts #LessonToday
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- Timbuktu, in Mali, has been a center of learning for centuries, and its family libraries hold hundreds of thousands of handwritten manuscripts on astronomy, mathematics,…
- When armed extremist groups occupied the city in 2012, librarian Abdel Kader Haidara and his team quietly packed the manuscripts into metal trunks and moved them out by car and…
- The BBC reported that about 285,000 manuscripts in 2,400 metal boxes reached Bamako, while militants burned some manuscripts at the Ahmed Baba Institute as they retreated.
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