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Afghan Archaeologists Battle Chinese Mining Interests in Fight to Save Ancient Buddhist Paradise

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Mes Aynak, a 2,000-year-old Buddhist city atop a 5,000-year-old Bronze Age settlement in Afghanistan, is considered one of the most important archaeological sites in the world. Only ten percent of this massive 500,000 square meter site has been excavated, yet it is soon to be razed to the ground by a Chinese mining company eager to get their hands on $100 billion of profits locked within Mes Aynak’s copper reserves. The fight is now on to save its priceless treasures before they are lost forever.

Located on the Silk Road trade route linking China with the eastern Mediterranean, ancient Afghanistan was a magnet for settlers from different ethnicities and religions, from Hindus, Muslims and Jews to Buddhists and Zoroastrians. Mes Aynak is an ancient Buddhist paradise consisting of stupas, temples, shrines, monasteries, and priceless monuments, which once sat on this cultural crossroad linking Asia to the Mediterranean.

 

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    • NWO for Dummies.

      simple solution. The miners have to excavate the entire site and relocate it. shouldn’t cost more than a billion. 1% of the profit from the mine.

    • NWO for Dummies.

      Many mines have destroyed ancient sites. This is because the mineral(s) they were after was the reason for the location of the ancient site in the first place.

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