KABUL 2011 (AFP) - Ten years after Afghanistan's ancient Bamiyan Buddhas ... two "anti-Islamic" giant stone statues be destroyed, despite pleas from around the world to save them. An Afghan woman ...

Evidently, Buddhism had been the vibrant force behind Sri Lanka’s interaction with ... sculpted imposing images of the Buddha in standing position in the Bamiyan Region in Afghanistan which were ...

The illustration shows the colored appearance of the Bamiyan Buddhas’ robes at the end of the 10th century. Parts damaged in later periods, which cannot be reconstructed, are made visible.

Christian Frei's documentary traces the tragic tale of the giant Buddhas of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley, which stood as monumental landmarks for 1,500 years until 2001, when the Taliban declared ...

A Hazara Afghan family looks on in front of their cave in the old city of Bamiyan, some 200km from Kabul. - AFP Bamiyan - The ancient caves lining the Bamiyan valley in central Afghanistan were ...

The site is also testimony to the tragic destruction by the Taliban of the two standing Buddha statues, which shook the world in March 2001. on this subject: Cultural Landscape and Archaeological ...