Taliban militants spent the early part of March 2001 systematically dynamiting two of Afghanistan's greatest historical and cultural treasures: the Buddhas of Bamiyan. The massive statues were carved ...

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 ...

One of the Bamiyan Buddhas, shortly before it was destroyed in March 2001 (epa) Five years ago this month, the ruling Taliba in Afghanistan blew up the two Bamiyan Buddhas -- one of them more than 50 ...

PARIS, March 1 (UPI) -- The United Nations marked the 10th anniversary of the Taliban destruction of the 1,500-year-old Bamiyan Buddha statues in Afghanistan with a special appeal. Irina Bokova, ...

UNESCO will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the tragic destruction of the giant Buddha statues of Bamiyan with a forum on the event and a two-day experts' meeting which will examine ways to ...

A 27-foot-tall recreation of a Buddha statue destroyed by the Taliban 25 years ago now towers over 10th Avenue from the High ...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan — Sayed Mirza Hussain faced a wrenching dilemma: commit a shocking act of cultural destruction or be shot by the Taliban. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access ...

According to Buddhist belief, the human incarnation of Buddha gathered a group of 500 monks around him in 543 BC to bid them farewell. He asked the gathering three times whether there were any doubts ...

In the intervening years since the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, archaeologists and art historians have turned their efforts to studying the rubble left behind for new insights into how and when ...

A decade after the Taliban demolished the Buddhas of Bamiyan, there is a new threat to country's cultural heritage In Afghanistan recently, supreme Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar issued an edict ...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan — They stand like missing hearts carved out of the mountain's chest, abandoned chambers where ancient wonders of the world once gazed placidly. It's been nearly 10 years since the ...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan -- The world mourned last year when the hard-line Taliban regime, decrying false idols, blew up the priceless, 15-centuries-old Buddha statues hewn into a cliff here. But for the ...