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

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 ...

In March 2001, the Taliban shocked the world by dynamiting the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. "I think the Taliban have understood ...

Colossal statues of Buddah carved into sandstone cliffs of Bamiyan, Afghanistan ... The ancient statues were the tallest Buddhas in the world, standing at 53 meters (175 feet) and 36 meters ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is no ordinary sculpture but one modelled on the Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan which was destroyed by the Taleban in 2001. Why a replica of the Bamiyan Buddha is being sculpted in the Kurunegala ...