The first attempt was the carving of the Avukana Buddha Image in the ancient Rajarata. The Avukana Buddha statue and inset, the Bamiyan Buddha statue Bactrian images of the Buddha in the Bamiyan ...

An Afghan woman walks past the ruins of the ancient Buddha statues that ... high hopes for reconstruction and the reality is completely different," said Philippe Marquis, a French archaeologist with ...

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 ...

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 ...