UN puts global treasures online

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

A website offering free access to rare manuscripts, books, films and maps from around the world is being launched by the UN's cultural agency.

Unesco says the World Digital Library will help to promote curiosity and understanding across cultures.

Among the artefacts are a 1,000-year-old Japanese novel and the earliest known map to mention America by name.

About a tenth of the 1,200 exhibits are from Africa - the oldest an 8,000-year-old painting of bleeding antelopes.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8009974.stm

[tomm2thumbs]

1. yipeee - I love this. I hope Microsoft doesn't try to buy the UN out

We need more 'library/museum' type sites on the web - we all grow from that.

[damntexdem]

2. Then, what will Nicholas Cage do?

Oh, global treasures, not national treasures! ;-)

[ohio2007]

3. So who did the UN steal these artifact from and which pockets will the 'proceeds" line?

[Posteritatis]

4. The UN did not 'steal' the artifacts

But if you'd looked at the site you'd know that, since stealing a cave from South Africa, among other things, is non-trivial.

For Christ's sake, the site's just digitizations, not spitting the actual artifacts through into your room from their evil theft warehouses.

[dipsydoodle]

5. Indeed

:rofl:

[Nihil]

6. FYI: Rule #1 ...

Don't ask questions of a write-only poster.

:hi: