Afghanistan has marked two decades since the famous Bamiyan Buddhas were destroyed ... co-organiser of the "A night with Buddha" event. All pictures subject to copyright Malala Yousafzai is ...
The entire collection will be repatriated to Afghanistan as soon as it is safe to do so. In this interview with The Asia Society, Mr Bucherer discusses the collection at the Bibliotheca Afghanica, the ...
She lived and trained in Bamyan, a small and peaceful city in the rugged heart of Afghanistan ... these statues were older than Islam. One Buddha, regarded as male, was 18 stories tall and ...
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.
Three Spanish tourists have been killed while sightseeing at an ancient city in Afghanistan. Spain’s foreign office has confirmed the deaths in Bamyan in ... year-old giant Buddha statues ...
Mountainous Bamiyan is home to a Unesco world heritage site and the remains of two giant Buddha statues which ... Since retaking power in Afghanistan in 2021 the Taliban have vowed to restore ...