I don't know how I missed this three years ago, but last night we watched a docu on PBS about the Lost Treasures of Afghanistan by the National Geographic. Yes, we lost the Buddhas, BUT the news of what may be there is very exciting, plus what they've already found.

I also was so moved by the artist/doctor who painted over works of art with watercolours to hide the fact that living things were in the pictures, which the Taliban deemed a sin and would destroy. He and the fellows who helped him, very ingeniously, saved over 90 paintings.

Anyway, a bright spot in a sad history.

kat