Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts
April 20, 2021

Restitution: Manhattan and US authorities hand over 33 artefacts stolen from the the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

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Image Credit - HSI ICE Afghanistan, one of the world’s poorest countries, has been plagued by war and corruption.  That vulnerability has lo...
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November 22, 2014

Brent Huffman's documentary "Saving Mes Aynak" will screen six times at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam Nov. 22-30

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Image from Mes Aynak (Brent Huffman) by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Brent Huffman's documentary Saving Mes Aynak will ...
April 14, 2013

The Buddhas of Mes Aynak: Kickstart Funds Used to Purchase Computers and Cameras for Afghan Archaeology Office in Kabul

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New computer at Afghan Archaeology Office in Kabul  (Photo via The Buddhas of Aynak on Facebook) Documentarian Brent E. Huffman raise...
January 8, 2013

Mes Aynak Archaeologists Given More Time to Remove Relics and Artifacts

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Documentarian Brent E. Huffman has announced on his Kickstarter page, The Buddhas of Mes Aynak , that archaeologists have six to nine more...
November 9, 2012

UCLA & UC Irvine: Two-day program in Southern California showcases international research on Afghanistan's archaeology and history

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Oxford Classics lecturer Llewelyn Morgan, and author of The Buddhas of Bamiyan , spoke yesterday afternoon in Los Angeles at the first of ...
September 13, 2012

Documentarian Brent Huffman Warns of Dangerous Precedent Being Set in Afghanistan if Mes Aynak is destroyed in order to mine copper

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Brent Huffman filming one of the temples set for destruction (Frank Petrella)  by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Documentary ...
September 11, 2012

Mes Aynak's archaeological wealth from the Bronze Age to ancient Buddhists threatened by excavation of world's second largest copper deposit

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An Afghan archaeologist examines  a Buddha in Mes Aynak (Penn Museum) by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor What are Buddhas doing...
August 30, 2012

Violence escalates in Bamiyan, killing 5 New Zealand soldiers in the last month, and threatening an ancient culture and people as troops plan to withdraw from Afghanistan

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Last month on the ARCA blog we interviewed Oxford's Llewelyn Morgan, author of the book, The Buddhas of Bamiyan (published in the Uni...
August 6, 2012

Classics Scholar Llewelyn Morgan and the “Buddhas of Bamiyan”: For more than 1,200 years a Buddhist icon reigned over an Islamic Trading Post

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by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor One of our ARCA subscribers alerted me to a book published this year by Profile Books (UK) and H...