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The Burning Library

Kerning Cultures

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The Library of the University of Algiers - 700 Books

The books mir and bruno were looking for were from the university library. They have similar names, but theyare entirely different places. So we started from the hypothesis that the fire was a practical way to hide the er taking of very valuable books. And samir's hypothesis proved to be right. The o a s actually did smuggle books out of algeria and into france. They just weren't the books samir and bruno Were looking for. Because wee looking for something we found something else. That's go also on to seantipity isn't it?

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