Ryukoku University team to explore rare Buddhist ruins in Afghanistan

Once I signed a petition against the Taliban (Taleban at the BBC) destroying what's considered the furthest west monuments of Buddhism (Gandhi's birthday was just celebrated, a lawyer in South Africa once, I read) in Afghanistan. We had a graduate student from there in our Anthropology dept. at Stony Brook, actually about 70 students from around the world. Tough room. This will be a Japanese archaeology project that may last 10 years. I heard there was talk of trying to do an archaeology of Buddha's town. According to folklore he died from eating wild boar meat, if that helps, (there's three "decouped" boar's heads on the Urquhart clan shield, on another is a bare-chested woman who says, "Mean well, speak well, do well").