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Ancient manuscripts in Ethiopia: preserving an historical and cultural heritage

Prof. Nosnitsin’s ETHIO-SPARE project made several field trips to North Ethiopia to identify the most important collections, create inventories and make digital copies of over 2000 manuscripts. Next steps were the classification and scientific cataloguing of these cultural treasures and the publication of selected studies and research results.

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Innovation Society Social Science & Humanities Germany

date:  05/02/2016

Project:  Cultural Heritage of Christian Ethiopia:...

acronym:  ETHIO-SPARE

See also:  CORDIS

The field trips were also an opportunity to train local researchers on preservation and proper cataloguing of the manuscripts, which can provide new insights into the history of Ethiopia and the whole region.

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