Over the centuries, the Standing Buddhas of Bamiyan have been at the crossroads ... Were the eyes of the Buddhas scraped off before or after that event, I wondered. The faces of these stone ...

The Taliban used dozens of explosives to demolish the Buddha statues in Bamiyan. Museums and governments around the world had hoped to save the two Buddhas, the earliest of which is thought to ...

Mutmaen on Saturday said "80 to 90 percent" of the Bamiyan Buddhas had already been destroyed ... those at Bamiyan was initiated immediately after the issuance of the edict," he said.