Directed by Brent Huffman • USA • 2014 • 60 minutes
A Chinese mining company is planning to demolish a 5,000-year-old archaeological site in Afghanistan called Mes Aynak in order to unearth $100 billion dollars worth of copper buried beneath the ruins. Follow Afghan archaeologist Qadir Temori as he battles Chinese miners, the Taliban, local politics and time to save the site from imminent destruction.
Q&A to follow with Vazira F-Y Zamindar, Associate Professor of History at Brown University, and Jonathan Knowles, architect and RISD professor.
Directed by Brent Huffman • USA • 2014 • 60 minutes
Q&A to follow with architect and RISD professor, Jonathan Knowles.
