Saving Mes Aynak

Saving Mes Aynak follows Afghan archaeologist Qadir Temori as he races against time to save a 5,000-year-old archaeological site in Afghanistan from imminent demolition by a Chinese state-owned mining company. The site's potential discoveries have the potential to redefine the history of Afghanistan and Buddhism itself, but Qadir and his fellow Afghan archaeologists face an impossible battle against the Chinese, the Taliban, and local politics to save their cultural heritage.