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 ...

In this interview with The Asia Society, Mr Bucherer discusses the collection at the Bibliotheca Afghanica, the events leading up to the destruction of the Buddha statues in Bamiyan and the recent ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

signaling the probable destruction of Mes Aynak in a way that evokes the tragedy of Bamiyan—the region in central Afghanistan whose monumental 6th-century statues of the Buddha were deliberately ...

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 ...