Ghazni will be the Islamic Cultural City 2013

We have been working together with Department of Urban History at RWTH Aachen University for cultural heritage management in Afganistan and Pakistan within the German Excellence Research Cluster UMIC. The chair holder Professor Michael Jansen, also the head of Aachen Center for Documentation and Conservation (ACDC), works together with UNESCO and ICOMOS as an expert for cultural heritage conservation in the Middle East. On Tuesday I learned from Prof. Michael Jansen, that Ghazni in Afghanistan would be the Islamic cultural city of 2013. I looked for the information at our Virtual Campfire - ACIS and got some information about Ghazni.

This is what I get from ACIS:



Further Information for the site : GHAZNI
Latitude : 33°34'N Longitude : 68°27'E Province : GHAZNIDistrict : GhazniDescription (by Reference): A large urban site consisting of a vast area of mounds and ruins littered with sherds and building debris. The most conspicious remains are two elaborately decorated brick minarets or towers, both of which have only the first storey still standing, capped with modern tin roofs. Other remains are: the tomb of Sebuktegin on the hillside to the north of the minarets; the mausoleum of Shah Shahid or Muhammad Sharif Khan, a plain brick octagonal tomb, on a spur near the western minaret; the tomb of Mahmud, a modern building housing an extremely beautiful carved marble grave cover, in the village of Rauza; and the mausoleum of Abdur Razzaq, a plain brick building now used as the Museum of Islamic Art, also in Rauza. In addition, there are many elaborately carved grave stones on and near the site. Excavations have revealed two more buildings: a private house and a palace. The palace is a complex of buildings surrounding a central, marble paved courtyard. The most significant find was a long, decorated marble frieze with an inscription in Persian, 250 m long. Other finds include objects of glass, ceramic and bronze, decorative stuccos, paintings, marbles and tilework. [1] Location Description (by Reference): Ghazni Province. 136 km south of Kābul. The remains of the old city stretch eastwards between the new city and the village of Rauza [1] Period (by Reference): Ghaznavid & Ghurid, 11th-13th C. (Ceramic, documentary, stylistic, etc.); Timurid, 15th-16th C. (Stylistic). [1]