Mes Aynak | Afghanistan Heritage - Culture
Mes Aynak, a few dozen kilometres to the south of Kabul, has been excavated since 2009 and has already turned out to be a major site for understanding the development of Buddhism in Afghanistan and the interactions between the monastic …
Mes Aynak | Ministry of Mines - momp.gov.af
Mes Aynak is a site 40 km southeast of Kabul, located in a barren region of Logar Province. The site contains the world’s second largest copper deposit which looms as major revenue source for Afghanistan.
Mes Aynak – Afghanistan - Sacred Land
Mes Aynak or “eye of copper” in the local Dari language is home to an ancient Buddhist city and the largest undeveloped copper deposit in the world. Aynak, located in the Logar province of Afghanistan, is of historical, cultural and spiritual importance to Afghans and Buddhists alike.
Mes Aynak: Dark Days for Afghanistan’s Buddhist Heritage
Apr 4, 2022 · An April 3 announcement on Afghanistan’s Tolo News site appears to dash all hopes of preserving the ancient Buddhist site of Mes Aynak, whose shrines, stupas and sculpted figures of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are scattered across a 100 acre site in the Baba Wali Mountains near Kabul.
Mes Aynak: A Story of Courage and a Priceless World Treasure in ...
May 3, 2015 · That slice of humanity is the ancient site of Mes Aynak. Based on the findings of recent archaeological investigations, it contains the remains of a massive, 500,000-square-meter, 2,000-year-old Buddhist city that consists of stupas and temples, thousands of artifacts, including ancient Buddhist manuscripts, and around 600 large Buddha statues ...
Saving Mes Aynak - World Archaeology
Nov 24, 2015 · Mes Aynak, a spectacular 2,000-year-old Buddhist city south of Kabul, Afghanistan, is facing total destruction. This sprawling 500,000m² complex of monasteries, temples, and hundreds of Buddha statues is hailed as one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of this century.
Contextualizing Mes Aynak - Afghanistan
The most extensive and important archaeological site in the greater Kabul region is Mes Aynak, a vast site often said to be 2.2 sq. km., located at the eastern side of the Baba Wali mountains. The archaeological site stretches over one of the largest copper deposits in the world.
Saving Mes Aynak
Mar 20, 2021 · Saving Mes Aynak follows Afghan archaeologist Qadir Temori as he races against time to save a 5,000-year-old archaeological site in Afghanistan from imminent demolition. A Chinese state-owned mining company is closing in on the ancient site, eager to harvest $100 billion dollars worth of copper buried directly beneath the archaeological ruins.
Project to exploit Afghanistan’s giant copper deposit languishes
Apr 25, 2018 · Mes Aynak, meaning small copper deposit in Dari, one of Afghanistan’s official languages, is huge – estimates indicate it contains some 450 million metric tonnes of ore worth at least US$50 billion (317 billion yuan).
(PDF) Contextualizing Mes Aynak - Academia.edu
Future generations of scholars may see Mes Aynak as an unique archaeological complex which comprises an extraordinary number of diverse functions and thus provides crucial primary evidence for the history of Inner and South Asia during the 1st millennium AD and most likely earlier—that is, with luck.
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