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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The pieces of a disarticulated statue of Buddha have been reunited nearly a century after the first piece was found at the Ta Prohm Temple in Cambodia, archaeology officials announced.