Source: https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/02/23/surrounded-by-an-ocean-of-sand-desertification-pushes-ancient-city-to-the-brink-of-oblivio

Chinguetti, Mauritania is home to some of West Africa’s oldest Quranic texts and manuscripts. It could soon be swallowed by the sand.

For centuries, poets, scholars and theologians have flocked to Chinguetti, a trans-Saharan trading post home to more than a dozen libraries containing thousands of manuscripts.