BAMIYAN, Afghanistan, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Japanese researchers have confirmed the existence of an ancient Buddhist temple near the Afghanistan town of Bamiyan.

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 ...

Archaeologists in Afghanistan, where Taliban Islamists are fighting the Western-backed government, have uncovered Buddhist-era remains in an area south of Kabul, an official said on Tuesday.

An ancient Buddhist monastery complex in Afghanistan holds artifacts depicting the prince who founded Buddhism. ... Archaeology 1,400-year-old temple ruins the size of a city block unearthed in ...

Brent Huffman, a documentary filmmaker and assistant professor at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, is currently working on a film about a Chinese state-owned copper mine in ...