BAMIYAN, Afghanistan — The Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues in early 2001 shocked the world and highlighted their hard-line regime, toppled soon after in a U.S.-led invasion. Now ...

Two decades after the two Buddha statues were destroyed by the Taliban, the Buddhist caves of Bamiyan are in a state of ruin.

I read with great sadness the Taliban’s claim that they have already destroyed most of the Bamiyan Buddhas, and their boast that whatever remained would soon be gone. As a young child growing up in ...

The Buddha monuments in Bamiyan province had stood for 1,500 years but were destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban, who said they were against the Muslim faith - Copyright ...

Afghanistan is selling tickets to the ruins of recently-destroyed monuments, the Washington Post reported. The Taliban demolished 1,500-year-old Buddha in 2001 in a purge of non-Islamic art. Its ...

A video recorded recently in Afghanistan shows Taliban gunmen using the remnants of the Bamiyan Buddhas for target practice. The video is raising serious concerns about a pledge by the Taliban ...

PARIS (Reuters) – The U.N. cultural agency called for the protection of Afghanistan’s cultural heritage and to ensure a safe environment for artists, days after the Taliban swept to power in Kabul.

Twenty years after the Taliban blew up two famous Buddha statues, Afghans commemorated the tragic loss of their historical and cultural heritage on March 9 at a ceremony in the central Bamiyan valley.

It takes 10 hours by car to travel 90 miles on the nauseatingly bad road to the Bamiyan Valley. The first stretch of the highway is quite smooth—it was built recently to shuttle American troops ...

Two giant Buddhas survived 1,500 years until the Taliban destroyed them. June 22, 2019 at 1:48 a.m. by ROD NORDLAND THE NEW YORK TIMES A 3-D projection of how a destroyed Buddha, known as Solsol to ...

Focusing on a refugee family temporarily living in caves that had housed 1,600-year-old Buddhist art -- until it was destroyed by the Taliban three years ago -- doc is a fine, human-scaled portrait of ...

Amid the ongoing unrest in Afghanistan following the Taliban's latest takeover of the country, UNESCO has called for the preservation of Afghanistan's cultural heritage, including its two UNESCO World ...