[SunkenCiv]

http://www.firstpost.com/world/egypt-institute-burns-scholars-try-to-rescue-manuscripts-160827.html

[snip] The volunteers, ranging from academic experts to appalled citizens, have spent the past two days trying to salvage what’s left of some 192,000 books, journals and writings, casualties of Egypt’s latest bout of violence. [/snip]

[whershey]

Another milestone for the Obama administration.

[LoveUSA]

Hundreds of rare manuscripts and maps, including the maps used in 1989 Israeli withdrawal from Taba, were destroyed this week, as rioters set fire to a library in the Cairo

Alexandria's libraries in 48 BC...Cairo's libraries in 2011...it's time to stop putting Egyptians in charge of precious documents. : ]

[MomofMarine]

This breaks my heart. It is probably only a matter of time until they destroy all the museums, ancient temples, tombs, pyramids, etc. as they did in Afghanistan. When this whole mess started in Tahrir Square, they did destroy some antiquities at the Cairo National Museum. What a stupid, evil bunch of imbeciles!