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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Library is a treasure house of old and new. It needs just a discovery.

Aurangzeb's sword found in AMU cupboard
LUCKNOW: Ata Khurshid didn't expect an antique scabbard to tumble out of a cupboard in Aligarh Muslim University's manuscript section. And definitely not one with Aurangzeb's sword in it.

Khurshid, head of the manuscript division at AMU's Maulana Azad Library, found the treasure last month during a routine inspection of a steel almirah lying untouched for five decades. The scabbard found on February 26 contained a regal ancient sword. That it belonged to Aurangzeb became apparent when Khurshid took his find to head librarian Shahabat Hussain to decipher golden engravings that looked like a couplet.

Read More;http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Aurangzebs-sword-found-in-AMU-cupboard/articleshow/7789877.cms

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