© UNESCO/Alida BoyeTimbuktu manuscripts
Read the special issue on the Memory of the World online (2007 - number 5).
Manuscripts, illuminations, archives, early films – the documentary heritage of humanity is fragile and threatened. For the last 15 years, UNESCO’s Memory of the World programme participates in its preservation. More documents of exceptional value are being inscribed in the Memory of the World Register from 11 to 15 June in Pretoria (South Africa).