Lost and Stolen Images:
Afghanistan

Bamiyan

[Includes: An Introduction to Bamiyan, Maps, Brihad (Colossal) Buddhas, and Paintings contained in the surrounding niches.]

Also see:

• UNESCO <http://www.unesco.org/opi2/afghan-crisis/>
  
  • See also, The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) <http://www.iccrom.org>
    
• Afghanistan 1969 - 1974 <http://www.thewalt.de/afghanistan>
  [Contains: Museum Kabul - 1, Museum Kabul 2, Hadda - Teppe Shotur -1, Bamiyan - 1, Ghandak, Stupa Mori, Museum Ghazni, Qarez-i Mir, Bamiyan, Shewaki Surkh, Kotal, Minar-e Chakri]. Edited by Volker Thewalt. German text, but English will be added, ed.

The Bamiyan Web site was established through a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access. It is part of a larger NEH project that supports the "Cataloguing and Digitization of Photographic Materials Related to Buddhist Art" in the Huntington Archive.

Works from the Kabul Museum

Because of the nature of this site, the visual resources have been organized according to material, rather than subject matter. The text included with the images are based on field notes taken by John and Susan Huntington in 1970 and primarily represent museum attributions that were copied directly from information provided on the museum labels. When attributions have been changed by the editor, usually because a different interpretation has already been widely accepted by the scholarly community, a note referring to the museum attribution has been included at the bottom.http://www.neh.fed.us/

• Glass
• Ivory
  Ivory Part 1 (contains throne-back, coffret, whole panels)
  Ivory Part 2 (contains individual panels/plaques)
  Ivory Part 3 (contains long panel sections)
  Ivory Part 4 (contains long panel fragments)
• Metal
• Stone
• Stucco
• Terracotta/Clay

For additional information about Afghanistan, please visit the following web site:

• Society for the Preservation of Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage's (SPACH)
  Contains an introduction, news, new strategies for the Kabul Museum, and lost and found -ed. http://www.col.com.pk/~afghan/
  

Established 7 January, 1998 ; Last Updated 2004.