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Safeguarding the Manuscripts of Timbuktu

In March 2013, CSMC joined the international effort to save a large group of more than 300,000 manuscript items that had been transferred from Timbuktu to Bamako in response to the threat posed by radical Islamist rebels during the period of political and civil unrest in Northern Mali. The CSMC project successfully contributed to preservation of this written heritage of West Africa and laid the groundwork for our current research in Mali, as part of the Ajami Lab’s activity.

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12 April 2021|Timbuktu Project News

’Damned and Destroyed’

The destruction of cultural heritage is no invention of the present age. Hermann Parzinger’s “Verdammt und Vernichtet” (‘Damned and
destroyed’), just published by C. H. Beck, fans out various examples from ancient times until present. The volume is both a historical survey and a plea for the protection of humankind’s...

13 May 2017|Timbuktu Project News

Ségou

The Cheick Oumar El Kebir Djire library in Ségou, renovated and equipped with the support of Gerda Henkel Stiftung, was inaugurated at an official ceremony.

23 April 2017|Timbuktu Project News

Cologne

Maria Luisa Russo and Banzoumana Traoré (SAVAMA-DCI) were invited by Jutta Vogel Stiftung to the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum (Völkerkundemuseum) of Cologne for a session on the “Spektakuläre Rettung des Weltkulturerbes in Timbuktu”. Joint...

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