Open Pit Mine Can Save Rather Than Destroy Artifacts ... marched through Afghanistan in 330 B.C. At Mes Aynak chapels have been uncovered with double-life-size Buddha statues still bearing traces ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Afghanistan, where Taliban Islamists are fighting ... are battling an insurgency led by the radical Taliban movement which destroyed Buddhist statues at Bamyan ...

MES AYNAK, Afghanistan--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 ...