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Re:Saharan Village Is Home to Thousands of Ancient Texts by Deimorz on Friday August 16, 2019 @03:17PM (#20718665)
This article says almost nothing and then just has a lot of stock photos. This one linked from it is much better: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/27/mauritania-her...
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Re:Saharan Village Is Home to Thousands of Ancient Texts by jacobolus on Friday August 16, 2019 @03:51PM (#20719022)
If you search the web for Chinguetti you can find better material.

In particular this article discusses much more of the history and context, http://worldlibraries.dom.edu/index.php/worldlib/article/vie...

Also try a video search, https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Chinguetti

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Re:Saharan Village Is Home to Thousands of Ancient Texts by Arubis on Friday August 16, 2019 @03:41PM (#20718925)
This is a much better writeup, yes.

For Francophones, this was originally posted (by the same author, so the English version at The Guardian is fine) at https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2010/07/05/mauritanie....

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