Conservators in Iraq's Nationwide Museum are finishing up a significant restoration mission in an effort to protect and digitise 47,000 manuscripts.
The Home of Manuscripts' assortment consists of texts written in Arabic, Persian and Hebrew -- and a few are mentioned up to now again nearly 1,000 years.
In a rustic that bears the scars of many years of battle and has seen antiquities and cultural heritage recurrently plundered, the Home of Manuscripts' assortment has managed to outlive.
It was safely stashed away within the Baghdad suburbs, whereas the Nationwide Museum was ransacked within the turmoil following the 2003 US-led invasion.
Staff and residents prevented subsequent looting makes an attempt on the "underground shelter" the place it was saved, in keeping with the pinnacle of the Home of Manuscripts physique.
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