Abandoned historical documents salvaged for public access
28 Oct 2010, 2:33 PM
Azra Naseem
Historical state documents dating back to the 16th Century, discovered in storage boxes at the President’s Office, have been catalogued and handed over to the Department of Heritage.
The documents were discovered in 2008 when the newly elected President Mohamed Nasheed was moving into the President’s Office vacated by former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
They were stashed away in boxes and discovered on three different occasions at the premises of the President’s Office.
President Nasheed handed over the documents, digitally catalogued, to the Department of Heritage at a ceremony at the National Museum this morning.
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