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March 24, 2006: UNESCO and Germany to Digitize Rare Ethiopian Manuscripts
"Addis Ababa - An international project to digitalize rare Ethiopian manuscripts, illustrated religious works, and historical photographs dating back 150 years in a collection at Addis Ababa University was inaugurated Friday."
"The project was jointly financed by UNESCO and the Cultural Preservation Programme of the German Federal Foreign Office to help the university's Institute of Ethiopian Studies restore and preserve its collection of cultural and historical relics."
