From the web: “”The memory of the world”: British attempts to save endangered Middle Eastern artefacts”

April 17, 2015 Uncategorized

How much history did Isis burn in Mosul’s central library earlier this year? It seems grimly appropriate that it is difficult to find evidence to verify the worst estimates of 1,500 manuscripts and 100,000 books destroyed.

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