Few days ago in Egypt, the Institute d'Egypte went on fire. This institution
contained 200 year old manuscripts. This centre was established during Napoleon's
(France) invasion, from 1798-1801. There is even a compilation that includes 20
years worth of observation of Egypt that was part of this amazing library.
Personally, as an Egyptian and a bookish person, I was shocked with the
news. If you follow me on twitter, you would have noticed the number of tweets
regarding the centre caught on fire, that I retweeted. I didn’t believe the news
at first but they were confirmed...finally.
However, there is good news which aren't confirmed but I hope they are true
anyways. The news is that there might be unharmed copies identical to the
burned manuscripts in the Alexandria library, isn’t that great?
And finally I would like to share photos of Egyptians trying to protect
the books. It was really heroic moment in the Egyptian history. They went
inside a caught on fire centre, all to save their country's history.
Source: Global News
Photo: Mahmoud El-Ragheb
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