mausoleums couldn t be protected from the islamists vandalism thirteen of the sixteen ancient tombs had been destroyed. reconstruction of this world cultural heritage in timbuktu began soon after liberation with the help of you know scope the work including the mausoleum at ben a so u.t.s. ginger bear mosque. with the support of the international community all the buildings have been. we constructed. but without military protection this part of our world cultural heritage could not have been preserved. that is one of the better lessons learned from timbuktu. at the subchannel institute in bamako the work of preserving the manuscripts which had been interrupted by war could finally be resumed. it s a race against time. every loose leaf collection of documents
arrived in bamako in february twenty thirty in the family libraries from timbuktu were finally in safety again in the new center belonging to haidar as n.g.o.s. haidar check the condition of the box as a manuscript had they been further damaged during transport in a battle co a new danger was awaiting the manuscript had been preserved for centuries in a dry desert climate and were already in fragile condition in bamako a rainy season lasting several months and high humidity took a further toll on the old documents the restoration work that had begun before the occupation was now even more urgent. but most of timbuktu s mausoleums couldn t be protected from the islamists vandalism thirteen of the sixteen ancient tombs had been destroyed. reconstruction of this world cultural