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The Buddhas of Bamiyan, two monumental 6th-century statues that were destroyed in 2001, were brought back to life last weekend via light projections, the Atlantic reports. The statues, carved into a ...

Taliban militants spent the early part of March 2001 systematically dynamiting two of Afghanistan's greatest historical and cultural treasures: the Buddhas of Bamiyan. The massive statues were carved ...

A video recorded recently in Afghanistan shows Taliban gunmen using the remnants of the Bamiyan Buddhas for target practice. The video is raising serious concerns about a pledge by the Taliban ...

A planned cultural center at the site of the lost Buddhas of Bamiyan, in Afghanistan, destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, is underway thanks to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural ...

The Buddha monuments in Bamiyan province had stood for 1,500 years but were destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban, who said they were against the Muslim faith ...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan — The Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues in early 2001 shocked the world and highlighted their hard-line regime, toppled soon after in a U.S.-led invasion. Now ...

The monumental Buddhas of Bamiyan once shone in glowing colors. Restorers have analyzed hundreds of fragments of the statues that were blow up by the Taliban. They have, for the first time, been able ...

For years, central Afghanistan's picturesque Bamiyan Valley was scarred by the image of the Buddhist statues destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. But the opening of Afghanistan's first national park, ...

The destruction of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 led to global condemnation of the Taliban regime. But the decision by Unesco not to rebuild them has not put an end to the debate about their ...