The Giant Buddhas of Bamiyan : safeguarding the remains / edited by Michael Petzet in cooperation with RWTH Aachen (Michael Jansen) and TU München (Erwin Emmerling).

“International Council on Monuments and Sites, Conseil International des Monuments et des Sites, Consejo Internacional de Monumentsos y Sitios, MeЖДУhapoДhЬiЙ cobet IIO boΠpocam ΠamЯthИКob И ДoctoΠpИmeЧatejiЬhЬix mect”—at head of title.

“Mounuments and sites ; Monuments et sites ; Monumentos y sitios XIX”—title page.

“with contributions from Catharina Blänsdorf, Ilaria Bonaduce, Maria Perla Colombini, Ulrich J. dahlhaus, Erwin Emmerling, Edwin Fecher, H. Albert Gilg, Pieter M. Grootes, Jan-Eric Grunwald, Michael Jansen, Christian Manhart, Claudio Margottini, Edmund Melzl, Sekander Ozad-Seradj, Michael Petzet, Stephanie Pfeffer, Bert Prxenthaler, Pierre Smars, Laura Thiemann, Georgios Toubekis, Florian Unold, Michael Urbat, Fritz Wenzel, Yazhou Zou and others”—title page.

Contents: “Greeting by Dr. S.M. Raheen, Minister of Information and Culture—greeting by Hbiba Sarabi, Governor of Bamiyan—preface (Michael Petzet)—Description, history and state of conservation before the destruction in 2001

Catharina Blaensdorf, Michael Petzet—The destruction of the Buddha Statues in March 2001 and the first UNESCO activities

Christain Manhart—The first ICOMOS mission to Kabul and Bamiyan (12-21 July 2002)

Michael Petzet—Anastylosis or reconstruction – considerations on a conservation concept for the remains of the Buddhas of Bamiyan (2002)

Michael Petzet—Mission to Bamiyan, October to December 2003

Pierre Smars, Ulrich J. Dahlhaus—Report on salvaging rock fragments, 2004

Bert Praxenthaler—Report on salvaging rock fragments, 2004

Bert Praxenthaler—Option for an anastylosis of the Buddha statues in Bamiyan, 2005

Fritz Wenzel—Report on salvaging rock fragments, 2006

Bert Praxenthaler—A combined geological and paleomagnetic approach towards the repositioning of fragments from the Buddha statues, 2006

Michael Urbat, Jens Aubel—Report on rock mechanical aspect concerning the eastern Buddha niche, 2006

Edwin Fecker—3D Laser Scanning and post-processing of the niche of the eastern Buddha, 2006

Georgios Toubeckis—Presentation of the cultural master plan Bamiyan (Kabul, 31 July

Bamiyan, 2 August 2006)

Michael Jansen—Report on salvaging rock fragments, 2007

Bert Praxenthaler—Combined geological and paleomagnetic analyses of the back plane of the eastern Buddha niche, 2007

Michael Urbat—Report on safeguarding the remains of the Buddha statues, 2008

Bert Praxenthaler—Report on preservation measures in the eastern Budddha niche, 2008

Edwin Fecker—Conservation concept for the relief of the eastern Giant Buddha and the back wall

Erwin Emmerling—Six additional tasks for 2009

2010

Michael Petzet—Report on safeguarding the remains of the Buddha statues, 2009

Bert Praxenthaler—Report on stabilization measures in the eastern Buddha niche, 2009

Edwin Fecker—The consolidation and stabilization of the Buddha niches and the cliff in Bamiyan (2003

04; 2006)

Claudio Margottini—Technique of modeling the Buddha statues

Ctharina Blänsdorf, Edmund Melzl—Identification of wood species

Catharina Blänsdorf, Stephanie Pfeffer, Edmund Melzl—Materials made of plant fibers : ropes and textile fragment

Stephanie Pfeffer, Catharina Blänsdorf—Mineralogical investigations on Loam plaster fragments of the destroyed Buddha statues at Bāmiyān, Afghanistan

H. Albert Gilg, Catharina Blänsdorf, Eva Höfle, Laura Thiemann—Organic Additives of the Clay Layers : plant materials

Stephanie Pfeffer, Catharina Blänsdorf—Organic additives of the clay layers : hair identification

Jan-Eric Grunwald—Dating of the Buddha staues – AMS 14c dating of organic materials

Gatharina Blänsdorf…et.al—The polychromy of the Giant Buddha statues in Bāmiyān

Catharina Blänsdorf, Stephanie Pfeffer, Edmund Melzl—The characterization of the organic binders

Ilaria Bonaduce…et.al”.