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Shortly before the Taliban in Afghanistan issued orders to blow up the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan, which they destroyed in Mardi 2001, a squad of Islamic fundamentalists systematically
a storeroom of artwork from the National Museum in Kabul.
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Working from morning to night, they went through boxes of ancient Buddhist and Gandharan statuary,
anything with a human or animal image that they deemed idolatrous.
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- all that is left of an unknown number of priceless antiquities - remained hidden ...
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... when Paul Bucherer director of a small museum in Switzerland dedicated to Afghan culture, was
into the room at the Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture, where, paradoxically, the crates had been sent for safekeeping in the late 1990's.
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The museum custodians were still in shock over the destruction they had
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Nancy Hatch Dupree, an authority on Afghan culture, said that when she was last at the saine ministry
in March, ...
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... the museum's employees had already sorted through the
remains of stucco and schist.
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Museum workers have
reassembled pieces from other famous statues that had also been destroyed, ...
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Last year Unesco designated Mr- Bucherer's institution in Switzerland, the Afghanistan Museum, as a repository in exile that could keep (but not buy)
in trust, waiting for the day when they could return to Afghanistan.
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Three teams have been dispatched to Afghanistan by Unesco to
damage to monuments in Kabul, Bamiyan and Herat, and at more remote sites,
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