Dam Threatens Ancient Buddhist Stone Carvings

Obliterating Pakistan’s Buddhist heritage. By Joachim Hoelzgen for Spiegel Online, with thanks to Fjordman: 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. At first … Continue reading Dam Threatens Ancient Buddhist Stone Carvings