That temple was discovered by my archaeological team. We are now studying the travel journal of a Chinese tourist from the year 632 A.D. to see if descriptions of a third giant Bamiyan Buddha are ...

Afghanistan’s isolation on the international stage, largely because of the Taliban’s restrictions on women and girls, has ...

That temple was discovered by my archeological team. We are now studying the travel journal of a Chinese tourist from the year 632 A.D. to see if descriptions of a third giant Bamiyan Buddha are ...

Home News: It is realy surprising that the 'editor', while criticizing Mr. Vajpayee of lapses of memory, or in his/her own words "chose to gloss over that bit of ...

It is one of several around Bamiyan that have sent 40 young women to train for two years as midwives in the provincial capital, after which they will return home. Snow covers the mountains ...

Ben Herskowitz stood on a hill overlooking the ancient archaeological landscape of Bamiyan, nestled among the high mountains of the Hindu Kush. In the distance, he could see white snow-capped ...

History & Culture News:Tracing India's roots to Bamiyan. Tracing India's roots to Bamiyan. June 20, 2025 e-Paper. ... and a newly built Buddhist temple, “Golden Abode of Buddha Shakyamuni”, ...

In a process called anastylosis, original fragments of damaged statuary can be pieced together with cement or other materials — as has been done at Cambodia’s ancient Angkor Wat temple complex.

Smoke rises from the detonation of an ancient temple in Palmyra, ... When the Taliban in 2001 destroyed ancient statues of Buddha at Bamiyan, the world was appalled at the lost heritage.

Since the Temple’s walls are made of sandstone, ... and Chinese artists paid tribute to the lost Buddhas of Bamiyan, which the Taliban destroyed in 2001, by creating 3D projections of them.

Like Bamiyan’s Buddha statues, Babri masjid destroyed by ‘Hindu Taliban’, ... Shia Waqf Board is in favour of donating Muslim share of land to Hindus for Ram temple,” he said.