Bamiyan Buddhas

Everyone now agrees we can't rebuild the giant Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban at Bamiyan, but now a Swiss expert wants to recast them in concrete. UNESCO is opposed to this idea, as in the past such attempts have apparently not worked, and they wish to keep the site as a memorial to cultural destruction. I'm thinking, however, that in order for future generations to really understand the destruction, they should have some sense of what was destroyed. So I'd say make new Buddhas, let them be somewhat cheesy, and stick somewhere nearby to give people a better emotional grasp of the scale of what is lost.