Afghanistan Buddha Statues Destroyed by Taliban Reimagined as Holograms. Published Jun 15, 2015 at 1:52 PM EDT Updated Apr 03, 2016 at 1:16 PM EDT. ... The world's largest standing Buddhas, ...

Afghanistan's hardline Taliban rulers ordered the destruction, Monday, Feb. 26, 2001 of all statues as insulting Islam, including this world's tallest standing Buddha statue which was already ...

2006-12-06 04:00:00 PDT Bamiyan, Afghanistan-- The empty niches that once held Bamiyan's colossal Buddhas now gape in the rock face ... once the largest standing Buddha statues in the world. ...

The Taliban destroyed the historic statues a decade ago. But in a painstaking process, the two giant carvings of Buddha are being reconstructed on the side of a cliff in central Afghanistan.

If we find it, this would be the largest Buddha statue in the world. It is described as lying down horizontally with a length of about 300 meters -- and the form of the Buddha is said to have ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 19-metre (62-foot) Buddha statue along with scores of other historical relics in central Afghanistan near the ruins of giant statues destroyed by the Islamist ...

Scientists in Switzerland say they have created a detailed computer model of the largest of two giant Buddha statues destroyed in central Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley during the rule of the Taliban.

The ancient Buddha statues sit in serene meditation in the caves carved into the russet cliffs of rural Afghanistan. Hundreds of meters below lies what is believed to be the world's largest ...

The tallest statue of Buddha in Bamyan was shorter than the existing largest one, the 71-meter (232.9-feet) Leshan Giant Buddha in Sichuan, China, from the 8th century.

Afghanistan archaeological sites dating back to 1000 BC plundered under Taliban rule. ... which had stood as the world’s largest Buddha statue for over 1,500 years.

When the Taliban controlled Afghanistan a decade ago, they were fanatical about eliminating everything they considered un-Islamic. Their biggest targets — literally and figuratively — were the ...