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For europeans timbuktu was long a mysterious place in the middle of nowhere. Today it is the scene of a battle to save an endangered Cultural Heritage the history of this ancient Trading Center the gateway to the desert is still in evidence here. At the same time the city also seeks to maintain its connection to the modern world in its heyday back in the fifteenth and sixteenth century timbuktu was one of the intellectual centers of the arab African World precious collections of manuscripts contained all the knowledge of the time that knowledge still lives on in numerous family libraries. These treasures were threatened when in april twenty twelve jehad us the militia occupied northern mali and timbuktu subjecting people there to tyranny. And destroying their sacred maza liams the historic documents were in immediate danger. A unique rescue mission to save the manuscripts began. Arrow. Thanks. Abdelkader haidara is one of the men behind the rescue mission thanks to him the Cultural Her