Afghanistan has marked two decades since the famous Bamiyan Buddhas were destroyed by the Taliban ... the centuries-old figures in March 2001. The statues had been carved from the cliff in the ...

have established a consortium which plans to rebuild one of two obliterated Buddha statues in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley. The 1800 year old statues were destroyed amidst a whirlwind of publicity ...

Dozens of archaeological sites in Afghanistan have been bulldozed ... they blew up the 1,500-year-old Bamiyan Buddhas, once the largest standing Buddha statues in the world, during their first ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Afghanistan, where Taliban Islamists are fighting the Western-backed ... Government and foreign troops are battling an insurgency led by the radical Taliban ...

Open Pit Mine Can Save Rather Than Destroy Artifacts ... marched through Afghanistan in 330 B.C. At Mes Aynak chapels have been uncovered with double-life-size Buddha statues still bearing traces ...

MES AYNAK, Afghanistan--The ancient Buddha statues sit in serene meditation in the caves carved into the russet cliffs of rural Afghanistan. Hundreds of meters below lies what is believed to be ...

AFP Bamiyan - The ancient caves lining the Bamiyan valley in central Afghanistan were originally ... niches that once sheltered giant Buddha statues destroyed by the Taleban are home to Bamiyan's ...

blasted away the 1,500-year-old Buddhist reliefs, leaving little more than their niches hewn out of the mountain. Over a period of days in March 2001, the Taliban destroyed the two statues ...