NORTH-EAST experts are trying to save Nepal’s historic treasures following the country’s devastating earthquake.
Archaeologists from Durham University are part of an international team working to preserve the Unesco World Heritage Site of the Kathmandu Valley following 7.8 Magnitude earthquake that hit in April, claiming 8,000 lives.
They are undertaking “rescue surveys” and excavations, including in the medieval city squares of Patan, Hanuman Dhoka and Bhaktapur.
Professor Robin Coningham, from Durham, said: “This project offers archaeological expertise in the post-disaster recovery effort for Nepal, not only affording the opportunity of identifying earlier cultural phases of human activity in the Kathmandu Valley, of which there is a current paucity of evidence, but also mitigating the risk, and affording protection to subsurface heritage, prior to the post-disaster reconstruction of these World Heritage Sites.”
Comments: Our rules
We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused.
Please report any comments that break our rules.
Read the rules here