archaeology

Watch the “Saving Mes Aynak” official trailer

I've talked here before about Brent E. Huffman's film, Saving Mes Aynak, the making of which Wildmind helped sponsor. Mes…

June 12, 2015

We can save a precious Buddhist archaeological site!

Brent Huffman, who travelled to Afghanistan to film the desperate efforts by archaeologists to document the ancient city of Mes…

May 15, 2015

Mummified monk found inside Chinese buddha statue

Irish Archaeology: A remarkable study carried out recently in the Netherlands has revealed that a Chinese’s Buddha statue actually contains…

February 22, 2015

“New” Buddha statues discovered in Afghanistan

The Taliban may have destroyed the two historic Buddha statues of Bamiyan, but in a sort of compensation, three new…

February 4, 2015

“Journeys on the Silk Road” by Joyce Morgan and Conrad Walters

Marc Aurel Stein was a superstar of his time. When he returned from the Taklamakan and Gobi desert in central…

March 15, 2013

Temporary reprieve for the threatened ‘Buddhas of Mes Aynak’

We've had some great news from Brent Huffman, who ran a Kickstarter campaign, raising funds to finish a documentary on…

January 7, 2013

Ancient Buddhas, modern peril

Andrew Lawler, New York Times: When the Taliban blasted the famous Bamiyan Buddhas with artillery and dynamite in March 2001,…

December 24, 2012

Grasping the snake of impermanence by the wrong end

The other day I posted a news article about various ideas for replacing the ancient Buddhist statues of Bamiyan, Afghanistan,…

December 18, 2012

Ancient site needs saving not destroying

Brent Huffman, CNN: Please bear with me as I ask you to briefly use your imagination. Close your eyes. Imagine…

November 4, 2012

Pakistan struggles with smuggled Buddhist relics

Sebastian Abbot, AP: Lacking the necessary cash and manpower, Pakistan is struggling to stem the flow of millions of dollars…

October 7, 2012