Under President Thabo Mbeki, South Africa was closely involved with the protection of this World Heritage site and with the preservation of Timbuktu’s magnificent collection of ancient Islamic ...

UCLA students Maya Janaswamy and Luke Godinez were among the 2024 participants who helped assemble the Getty’s current exhibition “Our Voices, Our Getty: Reflecting on Manuscripts,” which ...

including The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts and The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird.

The items rescued are precious manuscripts from Timbuktu, the intellectual and spiritual centre of Mali. These manuscripts hold the twelfth- and thirteenth-century Arab world’s entire body of ...

1 Meet Abdel Kader Haidara, The Man Who Risked His Life To Save Almost 400,000 Ancient Manuscripts From Timbuktu From Being Destroyed By The Jihadists These manuscripts, which some date back to ...

A rare medieval illuminated manuscript has been uncovered in a York convent's archive. Dr Hannah Thomas discovered the 15th-Century Arma Christi at Bar Convent while cataloguing the religious ...

Gunned down on Saturday morning, the man dubbed the world’s first openly gay Imam was as loved as he was controversial. A friend and scholar reflects. Ancient artefacts tell of some of the most ...

Timbuktu will deserve a prominent place on that list. About 10 years ago, we at Uncut started a collaboration with our friends at NME to release a series ...