Stumbled across my dad watching the 2013 film recreation of the famous short story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Though the movie is a complete bastardization of the written piece it was actually quite good. All that aside! In the end of the movie (spoilers) Mitty ends up searching for a man to the 'uncivilized portions of Afghanistan', which ends up being this same part of the world that the Bamiyan Buddhas are located. With the current research I am doing on the art pieces it was interesting to see the roads that Mitty took and see how that could possibly connect with the large amount of travel through these areas on the Silk Road. Though you never end up seeing the Buddhas the landscapes are very similar and are probably near each other. I think it's interesting that a place I never even knew existed suddenly starts appearing in many different places.
1. What does the wall tell us about the Zimbabwe people (the Bantu- another Star Wars reference) themselves? Were they organized? Were they literate? What can we tell about the people by studying the wall's purpose and construction? Categories
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