Taliban Took an Ax to Antiquities

Hermit 🙁 writes \”The LAtimes has an article describing how \”More than 2,750 items in Afghan National Museum were destroyed in [the Taliban] regime\’s war on art, experts say.\” First they came for the music, then the films, then the television… then the ancient artifacts of their heritage… \”A [printed] tourist guide to the National Museum, printed by the Afghan government in 1974, is now [Afghan historian] Mohebzadah\’s pocket guide to all that has been lost. Most of the items listed in its glossy pages are gone, he said.\” A deeply bitter irony is that the Afghan and European efforts to catalog the artifacts, \”those very catalogs–its photographs now littering the museum compound–helped the Taliban search for things to destroy as the regime became more isolated and more extreme.\” \”

November 23, 2001 by Uncategorized 0

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