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 ...

The entire collection will be repatriated to Afghanistan as soon as it is safe to do so. In this interview with The Asia Society, Mr Bucherer discusses the collection at the Bibliotheca Afghanica, the ...

The illustration shows the colored appearance of the Bamiyan Buddhas’ robes at the end of the 10th century. Parts damaged in later periods, which cannot be reconstructed, are made visible.

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 ...

KABUL, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- As China and Afghanistan mark the 70th anniversary of establishing diplomatic ties this year, the bond between the people of China and Afghanistan is not only linked by a ...

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 ...