TIMBUKTU, Mali (Nov. 10) - Researchers in Timbuktu are fighting to preserve tens of thousands of ancient texts which they say prove Africa had a written history at least as old as the European Renaissance.
Private and public libraries in the fabled Saharan town in Mali have already collected 150,000 brittle manuscripts, some of them from the 13th century, and local historians believe many more lie buried under the sand.
The texts were stashed under mud homes and in desert caves by proud Malian families whose successive generations feared they would be stolen by Moroccan invaders, European explorers and then French colonialists.
Written in ornate calligraphy, some were used to teach astrology or mathematics, while others tell tales of social and business life in Timbuktu during its "Golden Age," when it was a seat of learning in the 16th century."These manuscripts are about all the fields of human knowledge: law, the sciences, medicine," said Galla Dicko, director of the Ahmed Baba Institute, a library housing 25,000 of the texts.
"Here is a political tract," he said, pointing to a script in a glass cabinet, somewhat dog-eared and chewed by termites. "A letter on good governance, a warning to intellectuals not to be corrupted by the power of politicians."
Bookshelves on the wall behind him contain a volume on maths and a guide to Andalusian music as well as love stories and correspondence between traders plying the trans-Saharan caravan routes.
Timbuktu's leading families have only recently started to give up what they see as ancestral heirlooms. They are being persuaded by local officials that the manuscripts should be part of the community's shared culture.
"It is through these writings that we can really know our place in history," said Abdramane Ben Essayouti, Imam of Timbuktu's oldest mosque, Djingarei-ber, built from mud bricks and wood in 1325
This could be a problem for white people.
What happends if the text are translated and show crazy sci/math formulas that whites could not think of...
doesn't surprise me, the first modern humans were from africa about 100 - 300 thousand years ago,the earth had about 10 percent more oxygen causing multicell lifeforms to grow bigger so these dudes were like 7 - 10 feet tall and biult like a tank.most likely had black skin because they were in africa.But they werent that intellegent back then,i could see them having intelligence like 2000-5000 years ago at most
doesn't surprise me, the first modern humans were from africa about 100 - 300 thousand years ago,the earth had about 10 percent more oxygen causing multicell lifeforms to grow bigger so these dudes were like 7 - 10 feet tall and biult like a tank.most likely had black skin because they were in africa.But they werent that intellegent back then,i could see them having intelligence like 2000-5000 years ago at most
Not really and not just that...In Moorish Spain, blacks were more advance than any other nation. Timbuk collected a lot of math/sci from the moors and other dark nation.
There might be records of different beings, langs and other things
Not really and not just that...In Moorish Spain, blacks were more advance than any other nation. Timbuk collected a lot of math/sci from the moors and other dark nation.
There might be records of different beings, langs and other things
who cares who found it all humans deserv this info
Not really and not just that...In Moorish Spain, blacks were more advance than any other nation. Timbuk collected a lot of math/sci from the moors and other dark nation.
There might be records of different beings, langs and other things
the moors are very smart and educated wid islamic science.
YT learned alphabet,numbers and math from afrika and mesopotamia.
A lot of the early European universities like Paris, Bologna, Oxford, Valencia etc were primarily used to translate Arabic texts. They didn't really fukk with Latin at the time because Arabic was the educational/business language of medieval Europe. I've read about this repository in Timbuktu before so this isn't really news to me but don't expect much recognition anyway. The "History Channel" and all of it's sister channels will sugar coat Celts and Visigoths before they speak favorably about Moslem/African acheivements, if at all.
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