PUL-E-ALAM (BNA) The Ministry of Information and Culture boost efforts extracting historical relics from the Mes Aynak (copper) Logar’s mine site has exaggerated.
Meanwhile, the Chinese contractor says the extraction work of mining copper will start soon.
Archaeological relics finds from the Mes Aynak (copper) Logar’s mine shows that these parts were mark of great civilizations. Civilizations that date back as far as 5 thousand years back.
Hundreds of relics have been discovered over the past twelve years by Afghan archaeologists from this copper mine.
These works have been transferred to the National Museum of Afghanistan after their discovery.
Two years Back, Afghan archaeologists discovered a 5,000-year-old Bronze Aged city in the part.
It is located deep in the heart of the earth below Buddha City
The Ministry of Information and Culture Archaeologists and Explorers have so far only excavated more than 10 percent of the Aynak copper mine, but relics found in this historical site can retrace the Buddhism history of Afghanistan and the world.
Mawlawi Rafiullah Samim, Logar’s director of information and culture, stressed the need to haste the trend. While, visiting the Afghan archeological excavations.
He said that the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is aware of the material and spiritual value of the historical sites and the Mes Aynak (copper) mine in Logar.
Mawlawi Samim says that the Ministry of Information and Culture has a plan to extract relics from the mine.
Engineer Ahmadzai, deputy director of the metallurgical corporation of China (MCC) Contracting Company, says they are working to start the process of extracting copper from the Logar “Mes Aynak” mine.
The Mes Aynak (copper) mining contract had been signed between the Ministry of Mines and the MCC China Company years back during the previous government, and the contractor was supposed to start practical work for the mine for at least another year, but security, technical challenges and extraction of historical relics are the main reason for the delay.
The chief security unit of the Mes Anyak (copper) mine, assured the contractor company of the security said they could securely start the extraction process from this mine without any security tensions.
Worth a billion-dollar copper will be extracted for the mentioned copper mine.
The Mes Aynak Logar copper parts was once on the Silk Road, and Buddhists from all around the world use to came for visits, and it was one of the most prosperous Buddhist cities for thousands of years.
Excavations work first started from this copper mine in 1960s, and years later archaeologists were able to find Buddhist objects in the area, but no excavations were carried out in the Buddhist city until 2009.
Unique ancient relics from this area have been found since 2009.
These historical relics include Buddhist shrines, monks’ houses’ chambers, and about 600 large Buddha statues the size of Bamyan idols also exist amid this copper mine.
Manuscripts written on animal skins are also found in the antiquities of the Mes Aynak’s mine.
These manuscript are said to be the firstborn Buddhist works, but the discovery of the Bronze Aged city, which is said to be hidden beneath the Buddhist city, adds to the area’s ancient antiquity; However, Bronze relics have already been discovered in Afghanistan.
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