KABUL 2011 (AFP) - Ten years after Afghanistan's ancient Bamiyan Buddhas were blown up by the Taliban, there is still no agreement on whether the war-torn country's best-known cultural icons should be ...

The illustration shows the colored appearance of the Bamiyan Buddhas’ robes at the end of the 10th century. Parts damaged in later periods, which cannot be reconstructed, are made visible.

In March 2001, at Bamiyan in the central part of Afghanistan, the two great Buddhas, Eastern Buddha and Western Buddha, were blown up and disappeared without a trace. The Center of Innovation (COI) ...

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.

including the stabilization of the Western Buddha niche. It is desirable that all heritage-related projects be supportive of humanitarian situations, to the extent possible. Bamiyan’s urban ...