Turkish academic, professor Selin Şenocak, said European archives have begun the scientific identification of manuscripts and historical artifacts from the Timurid era that were long considered “lost.”
Şenocak, who heads the UNESCO Cultural Diplomacy Chair at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), told the Anadolu Agency (AA) that her “Following the Ancestors” project has located traces of key 14th- and 15th-century Timurid-era works in archives in Oxford, Edinburgh, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.
She said the materials are not only historical documents but also “important parts of Turkestan’s cultural and spiritual memory.”
Widespread archival discoveries
Şenocak said she was appointed by the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan to identify Turkestan-origin manuscripts and historical artifacts across Europe and was authorized to represent Uzbek institutions in archives across seven European countries.
