The Buddhas of Bamiyan, carved out of the cliff's malleable ... He has uncovered seven monasteries, fragments of a 62-foot-long reclining Buddha and many pieces of pottery and other Buddhist ...

Over the centuries, the Standing Buddhas of Bamiyan have been at the crossroads of several sweeping moments in history. From their magnificent carved niches in the sheer cliffs beside one of ...

The site is also testimony to the tragic destruction by the Taliban of the two standing Buddha statues, which shook the world in March 2001. on this subject: Cultural Landscape and Archaeological ...

This is no ordinary sculpture but one modelled on the Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan which was destroyed by the Taleban in 2001. Why a replica of the Bamiyan Buddha is being sculpted in the Kurunegala ...

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.

The cultural landscape and archaeological remains of the Bamiyan Valley represent the artistic and religious ... The site is also testimony to the tragic destruction by the Taliban of the two standing ...