RT @TheNextWeb: 300,000 ancient manuscripts were...

Published by Stephen G. Barr

RT @TheNextWeb: 300,000 ancient manuscripts were saved from rebels in Timbuktu, but now face a slow death by rot http://t.co/ybRhdoPujS by …
Stephen G. Barr (@SGBmedia)June 08, 2013

300,000 ancient manuscripts were saved from rebels in Timbuktu, but now face a slow death by rot

It's a story that almost sounds like the plot of a pulp novel: in the face of a marauding religious threat, and war, a local team secretly smuggled hundreds of thousands of manuscripts out of Timbuktu, preserving them for study and future generations.

http://tnw.to/s56G

Meet @MichaelArnaldo: UI/UX Designer &...

The Social Media Daily is out!...

2013
- July (44)
- June (281)
- May (273)
- April (287)
- March (485)
- February (393)
- January (550)
2012
- December (506)
- November (26)
- October (20)
- September (13)
- August (14)
- July (3)
- June (6)
- May (11)
- April (1)
- March (2)
- February (5)
- January (21)
2011
- December (1)
- November (4)
- October (7)
- September (1)
- July (3)
- June (6)
- January (1)
2010
- October (2)
- June (1)
- March (1)