delivered to him from all over the country documents that have been subjected to the ravages of war just like the people in conflict areas state of the art technology makes an exact copy everything stain finds its way into the digital world. books and people have found refuge in air bill a city in the heart of kurdish iraq with well over a million inhabitants mosul is less than ninety kilometers away refugees from all over iraq and syria have become stranded here. both father najib and historical library of the dominican monks of mosul have already fled twice from the so-called islamic state.
risking one s life for a heap of old paper is a concept not unfamiliar to the people in iraq either on august the sixth twenty fourteen the inhabitants of kut akash in northern iraq had to leave their homes in a hurry they included many christians and father not cheap. the so-called islamic state had attacked the town. continually but we continued to digitalize manuscripts right up until that final evening then came the drama of the night of august the city we left along with tens of thousands of other cars the road was completely gelett and then we heard that the kurdish checkpoint had been closed. kurdish peshmerga had protected cattle car right up to august the sixth but then suddenly withdrew with awful consequences
two of them and two book hunters from opposite corners of the world. book hunters collect books with a passion and ensure their safety in times of chaos war and other calamities book hunters are guardians of the world s cultural heritage this tree of knowledge is from a book found in a street in iraq written in the middle ages it had fallen into the hands of barbarians it was one that sadly the head of jesus has disappeared we have no idea whether or not it was cut off by islamic state and all we do know is that here jesus no longer has a head but it s a beautiful restored intrude on no account was to be took because that really completely this year here. in northern iraq father not runs what could be described as an arc for persecuted books he and his voluntary assistance want to digitize as many historical manuscripts as possible in the meantime manuscripts are
a camera. i m not going to show you an incredibly important treasure this little room is where we store the oldest documents it s our war on our. books written in aramaic the language of jesus which christians in iraq still count of eight even today written in the seventeenth century this book shows jesus entering jerusalem another work preserves musical traditions. with the wrote in arabic and also in french and phonetically this is currently the oldest handwritten manuscript we have minutes we have never had anything like it
we had risked our lives for that day that. he. lays it out. risking one s life for a heap of old paper is a concept not unfamiliar to the people in iraq either on august the sixth twenty fourteen the inhabitants of kut akash in northern iraq had to leave their homes in a hurry they included many christians and father not cheap. the so-called islamic state had attacked the town. continually but we continued to digitalize manuscripts right up until that final evening then came the drama of the night of august the city we left along with tens of thousands of other cars the road was completely genet and then we heard