Desperate to save their lives, families voluntarily smashed their properties and pulped their ancient paintings and calligraphy.

It is now held by the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections in the Carl A. Kroch Library at Cornell University.

The Beinecke Rare Book Manuscript Library is the rare book library and literary archive of the Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut.

In February last year, ISIS burned Mosul Library, destroying hundreds of thousands of books and manuscripts, some dating back 800 years.

The online library contains digital facsimiles of books and manuscripts, as well as multimedia materials and searchable indexes of additional Southeast Asian resources.

While the vulnerability of the sector to organized criminal involvement is clear, there is a lack of reliable and up to date information both on the extent and nature of organized criminal groups involved in the trafficking of cultural property, including works of art, antiquities, rare manuscripts and ethnological material.