Bamiyan Development Community Portal

Welcome to the joint Community of Bamiyan Development. Our community aims at bringing together experts from diverse disciplines in the area of preservation of the Bamiyan site in Afghanistan. We attempt to bridge the gaps between different generations, desciplines and cultures on a global scale.

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Community Highlights

Virtual CAVE of Center for Computing and Communication is a 3D Model of a cave in the Bamiyan valley, Afghanistan where once two big Buddha statues where carved into the rock face. In 2001 they've been destroyed, but archeologists together with computer scientists shaped this fabulous 3D model of the statues in order to be able to explore its structure in more detail.

ACIS

ACIS is developed as a community information system for cultural heritage management in Afghanistan. Based on an MS Access database developed by Department of Urban History at RWTH Aachen University, ACIS employs open web architecture and standards and Oracle technologies to present its diverse user communities a GIS-based multimedia community system integrating the existing data migrated from the Access database. Here you can post discussion messages in Forums, share your pictures and other files in Image and File Galleries and so on. An online demo is available. Request an account and give it a try!