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Re:The lost script: 1000-year-old African/Arabic writing system by ZeroGravitas on Saturday January 16, 2010 @04:19PM (#1057508)
The BBC had a good intro to this subject called "The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu". At least I liked it, but I had no idea about any of this stuff before I watched it. It was repeated a few days ago and is available on iPlayer for one more day:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hkb0z

I'm assuming that it was the inspiration for the new series, The Lost Kingdoms of Africa which just started and focusses more on art history:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pv1m4

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