KABUL 2011 (AFP) - Ten years after Afghanistan's ancient Bamiyan Buddhas were blown up by the Taliban, there is still no agreement on whether the war-torn country's best-known cultural icons should be ...

But having been attracted to the new Buddhist doctrine while they were in NW India, they, after their shift, sculpted imposing images of the Buddha in standing position in the Bamiyan Region in ...

In this interview with The Asia Society, Mr Bucherer discusses the collection at the Bibliotheca Afghanica, the events leading up to the destruction of the Buddha statues in Bamiyan and the recent ...

The ancient caves lining the Bamiyan valley in central Afghanistan were originally used ... forcing them to take shelter in caves right next to the Buddha statues. But two years after the Taleban ...

The ruins of a 1,500-year-old Buddha statue in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, 18 May 2024. Three Spanish nationals were killed in an attack in Bamyan, capital of the homonymous province in central ...

Afghanistan carries a Level 4 ... adding that seeing the remains of Buddha statues in Bamiyan and Band-e-Amir park were ...

Buddhas of Bamiyan: The colossal twin statues that stood sentinel over Afghanistan — until the Taliban destroyed them What it tells us about the past: Considered one of the most famous Neolithic ...

He has been an influential figure in Afghanistan since the inception ... as one of the architects of the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, the giant cliff statues destroyed by the Taliban ...