It was as a young backpacker that I saw the Standing Buddhas of Bamiyan, back when Afghanistan was still a kingdom. There were few outsiders there, given the difficulty of access. From the capital ...

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 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 ...

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.

Murals found on cave walls in Afghanistan prove that painting ... The Taliban used dozens of explosives to demolish the Buddha statues in Bamiyan. Museums and governments around the world had ...

including the world's tallest standing Buddhas. Those memories are still alive for millions of Afghans. And now they have become present concerns, as the US and Afghan government negotiate with ...

In March 2001, the ruling Taliban destroyed Afghanistan's foremost tourist attraction, the 1600 year-old Buddhas of Bamiyan. This film follows the story of one of the refugees who now lives among ...

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 ...