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[-] Mac@mander.xyz 3 points 8 months ago

what's the library in Africa that's being eaten by sand?

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 15 points 8 months ago

I think that's an episode of Avatar.

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

it is but there are real libraries in Mauritania being eaten by the desert.

it was on the most recent episode of The Grand Tour.

[-] Oiconomia@feddit.de 4 points 8 months ago

That's in Mali. Old Timbuktu manuscripts from one of the oldest universities in the Islamic world

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm referring to libraries in Mauritania.

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