Old manuscripts get face-lift at Jerusalem mosque
Friday, January 31, 2014 - 05:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In the 1920s, an urgent call went out to the literati across the Middle East from Arab leaders in Jerusalem: Send us your books so that we may protect them for generations to come. Jerusalem was soon flushed with writings of all kinds, to be stored and preserved at the newly minted al-Aqsa mosque library.