The Bamiyan region had been referred to in early Buddhist Prakrit ... to the sculpted work of the Ashoka Pillars and to the commencement of the Mauryan art with Buddha image carved. In the earliest ...

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 ...