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 first attempt was the carving of the Avukana Buddha Image in the ancient Rajarata. The Avukana Buddha statue and inset, the Bamiyan Buddha statue Bactrian images of the Buddha in the Bamiyan ...

Long ago, a substantial ancient Greek population from the island of Crete lived in the ancient city of Daedala, located in ...

AFP Bamiyan - The ancient caves lining the Bamiyan valley ... caves situated next to empty niches that once sheltered giant Buddha statues destroyed by the Taleban are home to Bamiyan's poverty ...

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.

A member of the country’s Hazara ethnic minority discovered the manuscript in 1997 in a cave near one of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas that were carved into a mountain in ancient times and ...