Two giant cavities about a half-mile apart in the rock face mark the sites where two huge sixth ... of a branch of Afghanistan's royal family, Tarzi first visited the Buddhas as an archaeology ...

In Afghanistan, Taliban officials are calling for the preservation of the country's pre-Islamic heritage two decades after ...

BJP leader Dilip Ghosh condemned the Pahalgam terror attack and said that India was a country of peace and non-violence further stating that no terrorism would be accepted in the country. This is the ...

At Gandhrai were discovered, two new temples of the same size and type - one dedicated to Vishnu and the second to Shiva ...

Painter Ikuo Hirayama (1930-2009), who painted Silk Road landscapes throughout his career, visited Afghanistan in 1968. He traveled there to see huge images of Buddha carved into a rock face ...

"I could just imagine opening the safe to find a big ... from the life of Buddha; and whimsical fish-shaped flasks of blown colored glass. In retrospect, National Museum of Afghanistan director ...

China isn’t a destination for the faint of heart — the crowds, the traffic, and the language are daunting. This can make it ...

Earthquake today LIVE: A Magnitude 4.2 earthquake hit Afghanistan in the early hours ... A before-and-after comparison of Mahamuni Buddha Temple in Mandalay in Myanmar, following the earthquake.

3 May CANALWAY CAVALCADE: If you go down to the canal over the May Day bank holiday, you're in for a big surprise ... of these world religions such as Buddha, and how they spread across the ...

He stated, “Without Buddha, this century cannot be Asia’s century." His visit to China on May 14-16, 2015 included stops at Daxingshan Temple and the Big Wild Goose Pagoda ... Buddhist sites in ...