News12 April 2021|Timbuktu Project News’Damned and Destroyed’Photo: Verlag C. H. BeckThe destruction of cultural heritage is no invention of the present age. Hermann Parzinger’s “Verdammt und Vernichtet” (‘Damned and destroyed’), just...13 May 2017|Timbuktu Project NewsSégouThe Cheick Oumar El Kebir Djire library in Ségou, renovated and equipped with the support of Gerda Henkel Stiftung, was inaugurated at an official...23 April 2017|Timbuktu Project NewsCologneMaria Luisa Russo and Banzoumana Traoré (SAVAMA-DCI) were invited by Jutta Vogel Stiftung to the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum (Völkerkundemuseum) of...7 February 2017|Timbuktu Project NewsExtension of funds from the German Federal Foreign OfficeIn October 2016 SAVAMA-DCI and CSMC submitted an application to the German Federal Foreign Office for funding extension of the major preservation...5 February 2017|Timbuktu Project NewsHandlists of manuscriptsInventory lists of fourteen libraries have been uploaded to the section “Handlists of Manuscripts” on SaMaT website.19 January 2017|Timbuktu Project NewsTraining workshop in Djenné supported by Gerda Henkel FoundationFrom the 15th to the 19th of January 2017, Michaelle Biddle, collection conservator and head of preservation services in the Wesleyan University...18 January 2017|Timbuktu Project NewsOnline access to digitised manusripts1500 digitised items from Mamma Haidara Library have been put on the vHMML Reading Room. This a first batch of digital material to appear online as...30 December 2016|Timbuktu Project NewsOverall progressThe overall progress of works funded by the German Federal Foreign Office has been updated in a monitoring table.17 October 2016|Timbuktu Project NewsViennaAbdel Kader Haidara, Dmitry Bondarev, and Eva Brozowski were invited to the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna to discuss the importance of manuscript...12 October 2016|Timbuktu Project NewsConference in ManchesterMaria Luisa Russo presented a paper entitled “Joining the dots: projects on conservation and research of Malian written cultural heritage”...Show all news