The Willandra Lakes precinct in NSW’s far southwest was one of the first World Heritage areas to be proclaimed in Australia, ...

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 ...

Those who created the Bamiyan Buddha statues may have done so to show their gratitude ... everything is subjected to decay, destruction inclusive too. ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ There are annual pilgrims who go to ...

Image: Contributed It’s something that weighs on Hussaini’s mind. Originally from Bamiyan province, where Unesco status failed to prevent the destruction of the ancient Buddha statues in the Taliban’s ...

May I be permitted to add to the thought-provoking article, “The Buddha I believe in” (The Island, 24th February) by my very good friend Dr Upul Wijayawardhana, a few comments on some of the ‘firsts’ ...

The Taliban in Afghanistan have been among the most hardline, stunning the world in 2001 by obliterating the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. In 2024, the Taliban’s morality ministry reported ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge refused Friday to block the destruction of classified documents as part of the building cleanout at the U.S. Agency for International Development, finding that ...

A patchwork of large-scale photos depict Mazar-i-Sharif’s famous blue mosque; scenes of Buzkashi, Afghanistan’s fierce national sport played on horseback; and the Buddhas of Bamiyan, destroyed by the ...

TA PROHM, CAMBODIA—Archaeologists discovered the torso of a unique Buddha statue at the Ta Prohm Temple complex outside of Siem Reap, according to a statement released by Cambodia’s APSARA ...

While excavating the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor in 1927, a team of archaeologists discovered the head (and only the head) of a Buddha statue. They then brought their find—which has been dated to ...

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