Bamiyan was worth the risky journey. Built starting in the sixth century, the pair of stone Buddhas, one 125 feet tall and the other 181 feet tall, stood overlooking the valley.

After all, the last year the Taliban were in power, in 2001, they blew up the world’s largest statues, the Bamiyan buddhas, went on an iconoclastic rampage at the National Museum in Kabul, and ...

Cultural heritage officials are divided over whether the group will again go on a rampage as it did in 2001, when it destroyed the famed Bamiyan buddhas as well as a host of objects and statues in ...

The site of the Bamiyan Buddhas statues that were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001 in Bamiyan Province. The entire Bamiyan Valley is on UNESCO’s World Heritage list.

It has been five years since the Taliban regime demolished two ancient Buddha statues carved into a hillside in the central Afghan province of Bamiyan. At least one man believes there might be an ...

Funded by the French Foreign Ministry and the U.S. National Geographic Society, Tarzi and his team has worked at excavations in Bamiyan every summer since the collapse of the Taliban regime.

Giant Buddhas stood vigil over the Afghan town of Bamiyan until the Taliban destroyed the statues, causing worldwide outrage. When the Taliban were defeated and driven from the area, they left ...

7 The site of the Bamiyan Buddhas on December 7, 1997. 8 An explosion rips apart one of the Buddhas in March 2001. 9 Taliban militants stand amid the rubble of the destroyed treasures on March 26 ...

Library pictures show the destruction of the famous Buddha statues in the Afghan province of Bamiyan in March 2001.

Bamiyan Buddhas once glowed in red, white and blue. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2011 / 02 / 110225122816.htm. Technische Universitaet Muenchen.

Rebuilding the Buddhas of Bamiyan Miranda Kennedy visits Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley, where two giant Buddha statues once stood. The statues were destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001.