In Timbuktu, a new move to save ancient manuscripts
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The tomes provide a rare glimpse into a precolonial African history of intellectual endeavor and will be preserved thanks to an $8 million donation from South Africa.
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Pencil and paper are so last-century. New software developed by international researchers can create and manipulate 3-D models of ancient inscribed artifacts.
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Modern imaging techniques have revealed some new information about the earliest biblical passage ever found in ancient artifacts.
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A new project aims  to clean up and restore old Kabul
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Jerusalem's mayor has asked the Turkish government to return a 2,700-year-old tablet uncovered in an ancient subterranean passage in the city, sugggesting that it could be a "gesture of goodwill" between allies.
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Morocco's capital Rabat is rebuilding its seafront and in so doing uncovering a vast treasure trove of relics, artefacts and ruins.
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A stone tablet from Mexico has revealed a 3,000-year-old writing system never before seen, according to a new study. But some archaeologists are crying fraud.
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In the caves of South Africa's  Cederberg mountains, an ancient people left a legacy of rock  art that could teach modern man a valuable lesson or two about  living in harmony with nature.
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Thousands of priceless books have been destroyed or damaged in a fire at one of Germany&#39;s most historic libraries, housing about one million rare books and manuscripts.
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An art collection worth more than 4 million that was thought to have been lost more than 50 years ago has been discovered by chance as museum staff struggled to save paintings from a flood.
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Scientists reconstruct part of the genetic code of a 75-million-year-old mammal ancestor.
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Ancient writings from the Dead Sea scrolls are to be read for the first time by British scientists using powerful x-rays.
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In the caves of South Africa's Cederberg mountains, an ancient people left a legacy of rock art that could teach modern man a valuable lesson or two about living in harmony with nature.
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A stone slab bearing 3,000-year-old writing previously unknown to scholars has been found in Mexico.
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The move was part of a long-delayed effort to allow archaeologists to begin studying a wealth of tombs in the area.
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South Africa is scouring  the globe to recover lost works by black artists that depict  the turbulent apartheid era in a drive to educate young people  about the struggle against white rule.
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A rare Old Testament manuscript some 1,300 years old is finally on display for the first time, after making its way from a secret room in a Cairo synagogue to the hands of an American collector.