From the Desert, a Wellspring of Ancient Manuscripts

The Washington Post ^ | June 25, 2003 | Philip Kennicot

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From the Desert, a Wellspring of Ancient Manuscripts

By Philip Kennicott

Washington Post Staff Writer

Wednesday, June 25, 2003; Page C01

"Our ceilings are not very tight," says Abdel Haidara of the houses in his native Mali.

He's talking in Arabic at a Monday afternoon lecture at the Library of Congress in one of the library's more ceremonial rooms. Curiously, there is sign of what looks like a little water damage above an arch window behind him.

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Way cool. It's always worth a trip to the Library of Congress when they've got one of these special exhibits. They really do them right.

We've seen the Dead Sea Scrolls, the original drafts of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution with strikeouts and handwritten changes, and other things not as important but still very cool, like decades worth of original Herblock cartoons.

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