The Taliban in Afghanistan have been among the most hardline, stunning the world in 2001 by obliterating the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. In 2024, the Taliban’s morality ministry reported ...

The Buddhas of Bamiyan, which were destroyed by the Afghan Taliban, were an example of the Gandhara style of art, also called Greco-Buddhist art. It exhibited the influences of the Hellenistic styles ...

The Afghan Liturgical Quire, believed to be the oldest Jewish book in the world, is now on view in New York City.

Famous locations that attract tourists include the Buddhas of Bamiyan (a monument that was destroyed in 2001), the Shrine of Hazrat Ali in Mazar-i-Sharif, which is known for its blue tiles ...

MADRID — The fate of a French impressionist painting once stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish woman is in question once again after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday revived a case that could ...

British media had reported their arrest, along with a Chinese-American woman and their Afghan translator, on February 1 in the province of Bamiyan, a major tourist attraction west of Kabul known for ...

A patchwork of large-scale photos depict Mazar-i-Sharif’s famous blue mosque; scenes of Buzkashi, Afghanistan’s fierce national sport played on horseback; and the Buddhas of Bamiyan, destroyed by the ...

Taliban authorities have detained two Britons, a Chinese-American and their Afghan translator, the interior ministry confirmed to AFP late Monday, after the daughter of the British couple called on ...

Museum officials say they are voluntarily repatriating the object after learning that it had been stolen from Guita Bahi in the Kathmandu Valley ...

The two pieces of the 800-year-old sculpture were discovered roughly 160 feet away from each other at the Ta Prohm Temple in ...

Archaeologist Michael Westaway, who spent years studying the cache, likened it to the Taliban’s infamous levelling of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan, saying the reburials could breach ...