The Future of the Bamiyan Buddha Statues : Heritage Reconstruction in Theory and Practice

This Open Access book explores heritage conservation ethics of post conflict and provides an important historical record of the possible reconstruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues, which was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List in Danger in 2003 as "Cultural Landscape and Archaeologica...

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Main Author: Nagaoka, Masanori (Editor)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Springer Nature 2020
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