Once there, go to the The Buddhas of Bamiyan page. Read the article by Jet van Krieken about the Buddahs of Bamiyan and the efforts of international groups to preserve them. When were the statues ...

Mortars and cannon were being used to destroy the Buddha statues in Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, reports from Kabul said. The destruction has drawn heated reactions from Arab and Muslim ...

Mutmaen on Saturday said "80 to 90 percent" of the Bamiyan Buddhas had already been destroyed ... issued a decree two weeks ago to demolish the statues, saying his decision was based on orders ...

Why a replica of the Bamiyan Buddha is being sculpted in the Kurunegala hillside ... Such were the beginnings of this mammoth project – the building of a 67.5 foot granite statue which has now ...

Two German-speaking Swiss men, Paul Bucherer-Dietschi and Bernard Weber, have established a consortium which plans to rebuild one of two obliterated Buddha statues in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley.

Buddhas of Bamiyan: The colossal twin statues that stood sentinel over Afghanistan — until the Taliban destroyed them What it tells us about the past: Considered one of the most famous Neolithic ...

APSARA National Authority For nearly a century, the head of a Buddha statue has been kept in the collections of the National Museum of Cambodia. Its body, however, was missing. But last month ...

Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head found nearly a century ago at th ...

In March 2001, the ruling Taliban destroyed Afghanistan's foremost tourist attraction, the 1600 year-old Buddhas of Bamiyan. This film follows the story of one of the refugees who now lives among ...