Mes Aynak Archaeologists Given More Time to Remove Relics and Artifacts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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