India is on the hunt for 24 ‘untraceable’ historical treasures

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India is on the hunt for 24 ‘untraceable’ historical treasures
 
By Vidhi Doshi January 13 at 12:47 PM

NEW DELHI — The ancient temple of Kutumbari stood for centuries in Dwarahat in north India. Then one day in the 1960s, officials realized it had vanished from records — and later discovered it had disappeared altogether.

The Kutumbari is one of 24 monuments on a list of now “untraceable” protected monuments in India. Some have gone missing because of inadequate or antiquated record-keeping; others have physically disappeared, destroyed by natural disasters or by humans.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/india-is-on-the-hunt-for-24-untraceable-historical-treasures/2018/01/13/bd6d4a7e-f4ce-11e7-9af7-a50bc3300042_story.html?utm_term=.d3e679642b7c