One of the digital tools used in these initiatives is photogrammetry. Put simply, photogrammetry is the process of obtaining measured information from photographs. Although it traces its origin to the ...

As a part of a television broadcast, world travelers Hal and Halla Linker toured the Afghan countryside in 1973, years before the Soviets invaded and the Taliban took control of the Buddhist site ...

Iran’s acting ambassador in Kabul, Ali Reza Bikdeli, has asked the governor of Bamiyan province to speak to the Islamic Emirate’s leadership to allow the inauguration of the newly-built 120-bed ...

He urged every individual to play a crucial role in saving the planet and stressed the importance of making rejuvenation of the Buddha Nullah a mass movement. Regarding the drug menace ...

The Taliban government has signed five new mining contracts in Bamiyan province for the extraction of lead and zinc, valued at 1.797 billion Afghanis (US$22.7 million). Announced on Monday, these ...

THE general arrangement of the third edition of Pt. 2 of Winchell's “Elements” remains broadly the same as in earlier editions. Advances in knowledge of the relations between the optical ...

The photo is of Leshan Giant Buddha in Sichuan province, which became the largest Buddha in the world after the Taliban bombed the Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan in 2001. Naturally, this being a ...

In recent years, cultural heritage preservation scholars from China and Afghanistan have undertaken several collaborative conservation and research projects at the Bamiyan Buddhas, a UNESCO World ...