Timbuktu, Islam’s Ancient Seat Of Learning, Loses Priceless Manuscripts
Huff Post: Krista Larson and Michelle Faul. SEVARE, Mali — Timbuktu, the fabled desert city where retreating Muslim extremists destroyed ancient manuscripts, was a center of Islamic learning hundreds of years before Columbus landed in the Americas. The library held about 30,000 manuscripts of which only about one third had been […]