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 ...

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, ...

World ponders rebuilding biggest Buddhas / Some ask whether Afghanistan's 1,500-year-old crumbled relics could or should be restored By Carlotta Gall , New York Times Dec 6, 2006 ...

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.

Photographs from Afghanistan have confirmed that the country's third largest giant Buddha statue has been reduced to rubble on the orders of the country's Taleban government. The 16-metre long ...

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 ...

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.

Afghanistan has halted conservation work at a site once occupied by ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban because the team involved is suspected of secretly trying to rebuild one of the ...