The first attempt was the carving of the Avukana Buddha Image in the ancient Rajarata. The Avukana Buddha statue and inset, the Bamiyan Buddha statue Bactrian images of the Buddha in the Bamiyan ...

Why a replica of the Bamiyan Buddha is being sculpted in the Kurunegala hillside ... Such were the beginnings of this mammoth project – the building of a 67.5 foot granite statue which has now ...

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 ...

With the aim to ensure the coordination of all safeguarding activities in Bamiyan, a second UNESCO ... for the final consolidation of the small Buddha niche and the conservation of the remains of the ...

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 ...

A Hazara Afghan family looks on in front of their cave in the old city of Bamiyan, some 200km from Kabul. - AFP Bamiyan - The ancient caves lining the Bamiyan valley in central Afghanistan were ...

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 ...