Giant Buddhas are Not Rebuilt
by The Taliban blew up religious hatred – now seems clear that the giant Buddha statues in Afghanistan’s Bamian not be rebuilt completely. But with the assurance of the fragments professionals have enough to do.
The Taliban blew up religious hatred – now seems clear that the giant Buddha statues in Afghanistan’s Bamian not be rebuilt completely. But with the assurance of the fragments professionals have enough to do.
Bamian – World opinion was shocked and powerless. In March 2001, two huge Buddha statues found in the central Afghan Bamiyan valley end. Religious fanatics under the command of Mullah Mohammed Omar had broken the centuries-old monuments of hand. Although the religious representations had also been in earlier times been damaged deliberately, but now was barely more of them left but a pile of stone rubble.
After the end of Taliban rule in Afghanistan on a reconstruction of the UNESCO World Heritage site had been discussed. Now it seems clear that the Buddha statues to be rebuilt not complete. “There will be no total reconstruction, which holds the UNESCO for currently excluded and that’s definitely been decided in the past week, ” the historian Michael Jansen said of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) in Aachen.
The debris field is now largely recovered, in part, if it were 80 tons of large boulders, “said Jansen. On the eastern statue, 38 meters high, you’ve saved the rock niche with their inner fragments. To this end we have secured the remains in the niche carefully. The western Buddha, 54 meters high, are similarly treated, said the archaeologist. A complete reconstruction is from the perspective of scientists, although theoretically possible – but would in practice excluded from Unesco.
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