viernes, 7 de marzo de 2014

SILK ROAD LECTURE, STANFORD UNIVERSITY

“Recent Excavations at Bamiyan”

By Prof. Zemarylai Tarzi
In French, translated into English by Nadia Tarzi

Thursday, March 13, 2014 at 7:30 p.m.

Hartley Conference Center, Mitchell Earth Sciences Building (note new place)

Prof. Tarzi, Professor Emeritus at Strasbourg University, is President of the Association for the Protection of Afghan Archaeology, the Director of the DIRI/APAA Mes Aynak Mission, Director for French excavations at Bamiyan, and a member of the UMR 7044 at CNRS (MICHA-Strasbourg).  Born in Kabul in 1939, Prof. Tarzi has devoted his life to the protection and preservation of the archaeological heritage of Afghanistan, working as former Director for the Archaeology and Conservation of Historical Monuments of Afghanistan, as well as the former Director General for the Archaeology Institute of Afghanistan.  He is the author of three theses and hundreds of articles and books.

Recent excavations spearheaded by Professor Tarzi (2002-2012) of ancient Buddhist monasteries of Bamiyan, until now unknown, have shown new and exciting discoveries.  Thanks to archaeological observations and analysis with Carbon 14 we are able to date the beginning of monastic life there  as early as the third century C.E. 

Sponsored by the Silkroad Foundation, the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies, and the Center for East Asian Studies.