Taliban authorities on Thursday freed American citizen George Glezmann after more than two years of detention, in a deal ...

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 ...

The pre-Islamic statues, notably the two giant Buddhas in Afghanistan's Bamiyan province, "are only a transcription of history and have no negative impact on the faith of Muslims," Wassel said in ...

This is no ordinary sculpture but one modelled on the Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan which was destroyed by the Taleban in 2001. Why a replica of the Bamiyan Buddha is being sculpted in the Kurunegala ...

Taliban authorities on Thursday freed US citizen George Glezmann after more than two years of detention, in a deal brokered ...

A member of the country’s Hazara ethnic minority discovered the manuscript in 1997 in a cave near one of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas that were carved into a mountain in ancient times and ...

Two German-speaking Swiss men, Paul Bucherer-Dietschi and Bernard Weber, have established a consortium which plans to rebuild one of two obliterated Buddha statues in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley.

on Feb 1 in the province of Bamiyan, a major tourist attraction west of Kabul known for its giant Buddhas – destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban. Mr Qani refused to confirm the identities of the ...

on Feb 1 in the province of Bamiyan, a major tourist attraction west of Kabul known for its giant Buddhas — destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban. Qani refused to confirm the identities of the ...

on February 1 in the province of Bamiyan, a major tourist attraction west of Kabul known for its giant Buddhas – destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban. Qani refused to confirm the identities of the ...