Timbuktu manuscripts

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Meet the unlikely group that saved Timbuktu's manuscripts

Timbuktu is no stranger to foreign invaders, so it's librarians, curators and museum directors had a plan in place to save the city's cultural heritage.

Men recover burnt manuscripts at the Ahmed Baba Center for Documentation and Research in Timbuktu, Mali, on Jan. 29, 2013. As French-led forces recaptured Mali's desert city of Timbuktu, fleeing Islamists set fire to a building that housed priceless ancient manuscripts.

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