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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think that's an episode of Avatar.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm referring to libraries in Mauritania.