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He is interested in a process called anastylois which involves putting these fragments back together using a minimal amount of new materials.
"It's a jigsaw puzzle with missing links but with geological methods we can discover where those fragments have been before," says Praxenthaler.
The method has been used on the Parthenon and the Acropolis in Athens but it would be the first time it had been used to reconstruct a monument that was intentionally destroyed and arguments against reconstruction abound.
Not least is money. Rebuilding just the small Buddha would cost millions of dollars in a region that lacks basic infrastructure such as roads and electricity. It would require the manufacture or import of a huge amounts of metal which would have to travel along the dangerous road from Kabul.
"Of course the counter argument to that is that jaw-dropping sums of money are spent in Afghanistan every day," says Dr Llewelyn Morgan, author of The Buddhas of Bamiyan, a history of the sculptures.
"This would be a drop in the ocean." Still, Morgan says, there are more pressing issues that archaeologists need to look at in Afghanistan. "Bamiyan has a tendency to draw all archaeological resources to it," he says.
The method has been used on the Parthenon and the Acropolis in Athens but it would be the first time ...
Rebuilding just the small Buddha would cost millions of dollars in a region ...
It would require the manufacture or import of a huge amounts ...
This would be a drop in the ocean.
Why is it necessary to write the verb 'would' in the above 4 sentences.
I feel it should be 'will' here.
"It's a jigsaw puzzle with missing links but with geological methods we can discover where those fragments have been before," says Praxenthaler.
The method has been used on the Parthenon and the Acropolis in Athens but it would be the first time it had been used to reconstruct a monument that was intentionally destroyed and arguments against reconstruction abound.
Not least is money. Rebuilding just the small Buddha would cost millions of dollars in a region that lacks basic infrastructure such as roads and electricity. It would require the manufacture or import of a huge amounts of metal which would have to travel along the dangerous road from Kabul.
"Of course the counter argument to that is that jaw-dropping sums of money are spent in Afghanistan every day," says Dr Llewelyn Morgan, author of The Buddhas of Bamiyan, a history of the sculptures.
"This would be a drop in the ocean." Still, Morgan says, there are more pressing issues that archaeologists need to look at in Afghanistan. "Bamiyan has a tendency to draw all archaeological resources to it," he says.
The method has been used on the Parthenon and the Acropolis in Athens but it would be the first time ...
Rebuilding just the small Buddha would cost millions of dollars in a region ...
It would require the manufacture or import of a huge amounts ...
This would be a drop in the ocean.
Why is it necessary to write the verb 'would' in the above 4 sentences.
I feel it should be 'will' here.
