Race to save Buddhist relics in former Bin Laden camp | The Art Newspaper

Race to save Buddhist relics in former Bin Laden camp The Art Newspaper The Taliban continue their destruction of very old Buddhist sites: here a site with remains from the 3rd-7th centuries is going to become a copper mine (leased to a Chinese company). Archaeologists have been scrambling to survey and excavate the place first, but Kabul doesn't control this area: it remains in Taliban hands.