Saturday, July 14, 2012
Kabul (BNA) Ministry of Information and Culture reported, about the enhancement of its efforts toward the confirmation and registration of Afghan historical monuments.
Ministry of Information and Culture has started the program of confirmation and registration of historical monument 5 years ago, but the authorities of that ministry claim that, they have accelerated their efforts in that regard.
The experts of the ministry during this program after confirming the historical monuments register them. According to the figures, have been presented by the ministry of Information and Culture so far at least 480 historical monuments have been confirmed and registered in different sites of Afghanistan.
Afghanistan having an ancient history has been always the cradle of big civilizations.
The existence of thousands historical monuments in this land is clear evidence of cultural and historical richness of our homeland.
Currently there are thousands historical monuments and archeological sites in different parts of this country.
These historical treasuries in long history, due to non care of government authorities, have mostly remained anonymous or due to lapse of time or natural disasters, eradicated.
The Ministry of Information and Culture, considering the magnificence of these historical treasuries claims that has accelerated its efforts for confirming and registration of historical monuments.
Mr. A. Had Abasi the head of preservation and repairmen department of the ministry told BNA that, they have so far confirmed and registered 480 historical monuments in various parts of Afghanistan. Mr. Abasi said that the experts of the ministry also distinguished 1200 other monuments after assessment would be registered.
The monuments, which are confirmed by the experts of this ministry included Tombs, historical building, historical mosques, Holy sites and statues.
The head of preserving and repairing historical monument department of ministry of information and cultures, said that most of those monuments were belong to Buddhist and Islamic periods.
Based on the findings of the archeologists of the Ministry of Information and Cultures Afghanistan with ancient history and rich civilizations has about 3000 historical monuments.
Coincidence to confirming and registering program, work on repairing and preserving of the monuments is continuing.
He complained that, they had small budget for repairing and preserving the monuments which could not meet at least 3% of their needs.
But with that small amount of money, they annually repaired 10-15 historical monuments.
In repairing the monuments, the priority has given to those which are collapsing.
He added, that according to their procedure, first the experts carry out assessments for confirming the historical monument in various parts of the country, then after conducting precise research on each discovered monument and if the result approves it as a historical monument, it is registered.
It is in a time that the Ministry of Information and Culture has expressed its concern about the collapsing condition of the historical monuments and has said that, they could not repair all the monuments at once with this small budget.
