Another case of modernism destroying history. I know nothing of politics, science, economy, etc., and I’m sure that this dam will be a major boon to the country of Pakistan and it’s citizens, but the country’s (and the world’s) history needs to be saved, rather than destroyed.
Nanga Parbat, Pakistan — Some 35,000 petroglyphs located in Pakistan’s Indus River area will soon be flooded by a giant dam. An archeologist from Heidelberg is trying to save as much as he can before encroaching modernity destroys the remote area’s cultural history.
 << This large rock features a Buddha next to a feretory.
But the reservoir will also bury beneath itself the witnesses of entire civilizations and ancient cultures along the Indus — mainly stony messages and images from Buddhist times, whose loss is fully comparable to that of the famous Buddhas of Bamyan, which were demolished with explosives by the Taliban in March 2001.
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~ by Thor on June 4, 2007.
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