Timbuktu manuscripts at risk …
Posted Jul 25, 2012
Last night, Erin Burnett of CNN’s OUTFRONT reported from Timbuktu Mali, that the Islamic Fundamentalists that now control all of northern...Tag: Timbuktu
A chance to revisit those Timbuktu manuscripts
Posted May 23, 2011
This past weekend I had the honor of presenting at the “Approaches to the Qu’ran in sub-Saharan Africa” conference held at...
Winterton Collection, and the NUL digital repository goes live
Posted Jun 25, 2009
From today’s NU NEWSCENTER: Rare Africa Photos Go Online, Open New Options for Africa Research EVANSTON, Ill. — This week —...
NUIT Academic & Research Technologies NUAMPS in DER SPIEGEL
Posted Aug 6, 2008
DER SPIEGEL has published an article about the golden age of Timbuktu featuring an image of the digital lab implemented by...
Today’s New York Times: Science
Posted May 20, 2008
READ THE ARTICLE Project Digitizes Works From the Golden Age of Timbuktu By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD Published: May 20, 2008 From...
Aluka update:
Posted May 16, 2008
Latest Additions, African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes Timbuktu Manuscripts Collection Aluka is pleased to announce that the first five of...
Timbuktu Webinar Today
Posted Apr 21, 2008
Timbuktu Webinar
Posted Mar 27, 2008
The longest commute
Posted Jan 19, 2008
Our team has returned from a very successful phase completion trip for our manuscript digitization project with SAVAMA-DCI in Timbuktu. Details...
A technological first in Timbuktu
Posted Jan 13, 2008
Surfing to the NUAMPS blog from the outside of the lab on an iPod touch. Besides the training in the lab,...
Timbuktu, January 08
Posted Jan 11, 2008
Today we head off for the culminating trip of the NUAMPS/ALUKA/SAVAMA manuscript project. This is being posted from CDG at PAris....
Les nouvelles du Tombouctou
Posted Dec 19, 2007
Our partner organization in the on-going Timbuktu manuscript project has launched a new blog, announcing the opening of a new conservation...