More than 1000 people drawn to carry out excavations Mes Aynak near Kabul. In 2014, his place will be dug pit for the extraction of copper ores

In the town of Mes Aynak that forty kilometers from Kabul, are the world's largest to date archaeological sites. Around 1000 people drawn to as much as possible to have time to explore the ancient Buddhist temples in the area.

Mes Aynak, located at an altitude of more than 2 kilometers above sea level, is known not only as the second largest after Hadda Buddhist complex in Afghanistan, but also as a place where there was a training camp of Osama Bin Laden. Monuments of these places have suffered from vandalism and theft Taliban black archeologists. Scientists find many beheaded Buddhist statues whose heads were split off for sale.

Headless Buddhist statues Source: theartnewspaper.com

Now all that archaeologists do not have time to remove from the land would be lost forever. The fact that under the Buddhist monasteries Mes Aynak (III - VII cc.) Is one of the world's largest mednorudnyh deposits. In 2007 the Government of Afghanistan signed an agreement with the Chinese government holding company China Metallurgical Group, according to which China is entitled to a 30-year development of the field. This concession, for which Afghanistan will receive $ 3 billion was the largest in its history.

project, which certainly will improve the economic situation in Afghanistan, unfortunately, become a gravedigger Mes Aynak: in its place will dig a huge pit.

excavation to rescue the artifacts in these areas were initiated in 2009. Were investigated complexes Goal Hamid and Tepe Kafiriat. And although over the years has been relatively little studied, the researchers plan to complete the survey within 14 months. Excavation will begin in 2014.

said in an interview with The Art Newspaper, Deputy Minister of Culture Omar Sultan, Afghanistan (Omar Sultan), this month the number of archaeologists in the Mes Aynak increase from 30 to 65 people, and workers will be up to 900 instead of 90. The monument is now guarded by 1600 soldiers. Excavations will cost approximately $ 28 million, part of the money will come from the national budget, and another part will be paid by the Chinese sponsors of the project. From the Middle Kingdom is to help the Afghan arrive Chinese archaeologists.

While the most valuable finds are transported to the National Museum of Kabul, but in the future government of Afghanistan plans to build for them a separate museum near Mes Aynak.

material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources : theartnewspaper.com , artinvestment.ru