A massive sculpture at New York's High Line by Tuan Andrew Nguyen will commemorate Afghanistan's Bamiyan Buddhas.

Come spring 2026, New Yorkers strolling the High Line will encounter a new, towering neighbor with a backstory that stretches ...

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 ...

A towering, 27-foot-tall statue of Buddha will stand on Manhattan’s High Line next year as a new art installation in the ...

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 ...

On the High Line Plinth next spring, the Vietnam-based artist will resurrect an ancient Buddha, destroyed by the Taliban, as ...

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.

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan We got him! screamed Afghan archaeologist Anwar Khan Fayez as he leapt from the pit beneath the towering sandstone cliffs, where the Bamiyan Buddhas once stood. Seven years after ...

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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, ...