Criterion (i): The Buddha statues and the cave art in Bamiyan Valley are an outstanding representation of the Gandharan school in Buddhist art in the Central Asian region.

A cemetery near Damascus was transformed into an industrial-scale mass grave for Syrians who opposed President Bashar al-Assad.

After 25 years of rocking Fort Myers, concert venue Buddha LIVE is shutting its doors on McGregor Boulevard.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Former Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari was buried Tuesday in his northern hometown as thousands of people lined the streets to say goodbye.

A spacecraft called the Nyx capsule recently crashed in the Pacific Ocean after the landing parachutes failed to deploy. The capsule carried cargo including cannabis and human remains, all of ...

Former Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari was buried Tuesday in his northern hometown as thousands of people lined the streets to say goodbye.

Former Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari was buried Tuesday in his northern hometown as thousands of people lined the streets to say goodbye. Current President Bola Tinubu and several regional ...

One of Nigeria's wealthiest businessmen, Aminu Dantata, has been buried in Saudi Arabia after he died on Saturday in the United Arab Emirates. Business mogul Dantata, 94, an uncle of Africa's ...

It is desirable that all heritage-related projects be supportive of humanitarian situations, to the extent possible. Bamiyan’s urban environment has developed steadily over the past 20 years, with ...

Artistic coffins and elaborate wakes. Photographs of Ghana’s flamboyant funerals are featured in a new book.

Indeed, the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to reenact the infamous Muslim destruction of Nalanda monastery in the thirteenth century but also to reaffirm the ...