A cliff-face cavity is all that remains of one of two sixth-century Buddha sculptures ... his tent to a rectangular pit in the Bamiyan Valley of northern Afghanistan. Crenulated sandstone cliffs ...

The destruction of monuments include two famous fifth-century statues of Buddha carved into a mountainside in Bamiyan ... of a standing Buddha. The smaller statue is 37 metres tall. The Afghan ...

Standing stoically in the heart of the Bamiyan Valley, some 160 kilometers North-West of Kabul, Afghanistan, the Buddha statues had been witness to almost 2000 years of the modern world's history.

The site is also testimony to the tragic destruction by the Taliban of the two standing Buddha statues, which shook the world in March 2001. on this subject: Cultural Landscape and Archaeological ...

Three Spanish tourists have been killed by gunmen in the central Afghanistan ... Mountainous Bamiyan is home to a Unesco world heritage site and the remains of two giant Buddha statues which ...