UPDATE: A report by Time says that manuscripts in one library earlier reported destroyed are safe, having been smuggled out of Timbuktu before insurgents took control of the city.News is leaking out of Mali that Islamic insurgents set fire to and destroyed two buildings that housed one of the greatest cultural treasures of mankind: The Manuscripts of Timbuktu.
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Reports: Timbuktu Manuscripts Threatened By Mali Insurgents; Some Saved
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