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(21 Oct 2022)
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Mount Athos – 13 October 2022
1. Various drone shots of Pantokrator Monastery on Mount Athos ++MUTE++
ANNOTATION: Historians study rare documents at Greek monasteries.
2. Close-up of hands lighting candles
3. Wide of visitors lighting candles and kissing icons
4. Various of monk using censer during service
ANNOTATION: At a secluded community of Orthodox Christian monasteries in northern Greece, monks observe centuries old traditions.   
5. Mid of Father Theophilos, a monk at the Pantokrator Monastery, entering the library  
6. Pan of Father Theophilos opening drawer, removing folder and opening it on a table to show manuscripts
ANNOTATION: The libraries at Mount Athos are a treasure trove for historians researching how the Ottoman Empire was run centuries ago.
8. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Father Theophilos, a monk at the Pantokrator Monastery: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT++
"There are approximately 1,300 original Byzantine documents. Most don't exist anywhere else.
Here we have the most ancient Ottoman documents, from before the fall of Constantinople. They are kept at Mount Athos' monasteries from the end of 14th century and beginning of the 15th. The most ancient Ottoman documents are here."
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9. Various of manuscript details
10. Wide of Father Theophilos and researchers looking at manuscripts
11. Various of manuscript details
12. Mid of monk using a mallet and plank to summon monks to a church service
ANNOTATION: Researchers say the Muslim Ottoman Turks did not interfere with the Christian community at Mount Athos during centuries of occupation.  
13. Wide of Greek flag
14. Various of monastery's building
ANNOTATION: The community of 20 monasteries remains self governing
15. Various of monks leaving church
STORYLINE:
Deep inside a medieval fortified monastery in the Mount Athos monastic community, researchers are for the first time tapping a virtually unknown treasure: thousands of Ottoman-era manuscripts that include the oldest of their kind in the world.
The libraries of the self-governed community, established more than 1,000 years ago on the Athos peninsula in northern Greece, are a repository of rare, centuries-old works in several languages including Greek, Russian and Romanian.
Many have been extensively studied, but not the Ottoman Turkish manuscripts, products of an occupying bureaucracy that ruled northern Greece from the late 14th century until the early 20th.
And they tell a story at odds with the traditional understanding of Ottoman depredations in the newly-conquered areas.
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