The families appeared to have moved into the caves in Bamiyan province in a bid to get new houses from aid organizations, U.N. spokesman Manoel de Almeida e Silva said.

A mural in a cave near the Bamiyan Buddhas dates to a time when Buddhist monks lived in the region. Some of the art they left behind is among the world’s oldest known oil paintings.

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.

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.

5 Despite the destruction of the Buddha statues, visitors continue to visit the Bamiyan Valley where, in 2008, scientists said the world's oldest oil paintings had been discovered in a cave carved ...

The Buddhas of Bamiyan were a pair of massive statues of robed figures, dubbed the Eastern Buddha and the Western Buddha, that once stood along the Silk Road, a network of trade routes that ...

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.

The Buddhas of Bamiyan were a pair of massive statues of robed figures, dubbed the Eastern Buddha and the Western Buddha, that once stood along the Silk Road, a network of trade routes that ...