A Buddhist temple with a model train above its entrance has become a local tourist attraction in Thailand. Footage shows a ...

By plane, motorbike, camper van and even on bicycles, tourists are beginning to discover Afghanistan, with solo travelers and ...

By plane, motorbike, camper van and even on bicycles, tourists are beginning to discover Afghanistan, with solo travellers ...

Nearly 9,000 foreign tourists visited Afghanistan last year, while nearly 3,000 people visited in the first three months of ...

Lenin and Trotsky have long been dead, but their efforts to erase history through revolutions live on. Today, the erasure is ...

The Buddhas of Bamiyan were a pair of massive statues of robed figures, dubbed the Eastern Buddha and the Western Buddha, that once stood along the Silk Road, a network of trade routes that ...

A farmer works in his field not far from the empty niche of the Great Buddha, a monumental statue destroyed with explosives by the Taliban in March 2001. Bamiyan, Afghanistan, June 18, 2023.

Two boys ride their bicycles past the huge cavity where one of the ancient Buddhas of Bamiyan used to stand. The monumental statues were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, but the new funding ...

Today, 11 March, marks the anniversary of the destruction of Bamiyan’s iconic sixth and seventh century Buddha statues by the Taliban in 2001. In 2003, the cultural landscape and archaeological ...