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JMZ schrieb:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Unhappily, I've never visit Afghanistan, but
<br>I've begin study the Balkh History, from
<br>Greek Empire (and before) to Tamerlan [TimurLeng]
<br>(and after). Bactriane was a "marriage" between
<br>two civilization. Not a conflict limit.
<br> </blockquote>
Yes, I know about Bactria... the very notion that until about 60 AD a flourishing
Greco-Iranian civilization existed so far away from the motherland is thrilling...
perhaps you also heard about the ruins of Ai Khanum (around 140 BC) - wouldn't
it be tempting to render a reconstruction?
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>In the 70's I was too young to go somewhere alone...
<br>But around 1977/78, I've read a french book written
<br>by Anne-France D'HAUTEVILLE who has visited
<br>Afghanistan in 1970/75 and she loves this country,
<br>and perhaps give me the idea to visit it in the future.
<br>I keep this idea. War will have a end.
<br> </blockquote>
Yes, I'm myself an "afghoholic" since almost 20 years, desperately yearning
for a chance to simply pack my bike and set out for the Hindu Kush... but,
for reasons we all know, up to now I have to content myself with a computer-generated
virtual Afghanistan. With PoV-Ray, which I discovered in 1995, and with
the gradual advance of processors during the last years, this idea of "Khyberspace"
now slowly begins to turn reality, as I mentioned before, I'm currently
working on a 3D representation of an area in Kandahar province - when I'll
have completed the first small slice of about 200 x 500 pixels containing
a village, temporary rivers and some steep hills, I will post it here...
watch out for PoVghanistan!
<p>Does this sound interesting to anybody here around? Later on, I would
like to render some more sophisticated things, like the old city of Herat,
the famous lonely minaret of Jam, the "rainbow lakes" of Band-e Amir or
even the - now destroyed - giant rock buddhas of Bamiyan...
<p>To Éric: I never heard of Anne-France d'Hauteville's book on
Afghanistan - has it ever been translated to German or at least English
(my French is very poor) - is it a photo book like "Mémories d'Afghanistan"
of Roland and Sabrine Michaud?
<p>See you in Khyberspace - <font face="Times New Roman,Times"><a
href="http://www.geocities.com/electricafghan/index-e.html">http://www.geocities.com/electricafghan/index-e.html</a></font>
<br>Afghanistan Chronicle: <a
href="http://www.ndh.net/home/bleimann/">http://www.ndh.net/home/bleimann/</a><a
href="http://www.ndh.net/home/bleimann/"></a>
<p>Yadgar
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