treasures-of-the-ancient-world:Rescuing Mes Aynak In Afghanistan a fortune in copper ore lies buried
treasures-of-the-ancient-world:Rescuing Mes Aynak In Afghanistan a fortune in copper ore lies buried beneath a trove of ancient Buddhist artifacts.The play of perspective makes an eight-foot-tall stone shrine at Mes Aynak, Afghanistan, appear much larger than it is. Archaeologists have uncovered only a fraction of the sprawling Buddhist complex, which dates from the third to the eighth centuries A.D.(經由 Rescuing Mes Aynak - Photo Gallery - National Geographic Magazine) -- source link