Archaeology - Hidden Stupa, Buddhist Monastery in Samangan (Afghanistan)
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Safeguarding Cultural Heritage: Post-Conflict and Post- Disaster Strategies for Sustainable Museum Management UNESCO Training May 8-13, 2010 Kabul, Afghanistan
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In October 2008 I visited Samangan’s Takht-i Rostam, in northern Afghanistan, on my way from Mazar-i Sharif to Kabul with Qais, a Pansheri driver kindly provided by People in Need (a Czech NGO that has been already for a long time in Afghanistan, providing exellent help to people - many thanks to them!). This area includes a great stupa, hidden in the mountain - only the top slightly popping up - and a vast net of monastic cells in a nearby, lower hill. The Buddhist archeological area is relatively well preserved, also due to the fact that locals thought the meditation cells in a row to be an ancient bazar - which made them utterly uninteresting and spared them from any possible outburst of religious zeal... This presentation was prepared for the capacity building workshop for museum professionals organized by UNESCO at Kabul National Museum of Afghanistan in May 2010.
Transcript of Archaeology - Hidden Stupa, Buddhist Monastery in Samangan (Afghanistan)
Safeguarding Cultural Heritage:Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster
Strategies for Sustainable Museum Management
UNESCO Training
May 8-13, 2010Kabul, Afghanistan
Samangan – Takht-i Rostam
Alessandro Califano
UNESCO Training – Session IV
May 9, 2010Kabul, Afghanistan
Samangan
Samangan
Takht-i Rostam – The Setting
Takht-i Rostam – The Hidden Stupa 1/3
Takht-i Rostam – The Hidden Stupa 2/3
Takht-i Rostam – The Hidden Stupa 3/3
Samangan's Monastery – General View
Samangan's Monastery – Lower Access
Samangan's Monastery – Lower Access, Detail
Samangan's Monastery – Large Hall
Samangan's Monastery – Large Hall, Roof
Samangan's Monastery – Monks' Cells
Samangan's Monastery – Second Corridor
Samangan's Monastery – Bassin
Samangan – Credits
All pictures © Alessandro Califano, 2008
Many thanks to People in Need for the assistance provided to me on that occasion.
© Alessandro Califano, 2010
