Mirza Hussain, and other prisoners like him, had labored for hours to stack mines, bombs and dynamite beneath the feet of Afghanistan’s most iconic public artwork — a 175-foot standing statue of the ...

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 ...

According to Buddhist belief, the human incarnation of Buddha gathered a group of 500 monks around him in 543 BC to bid them farewell. He asked the gathering three times whether there were any doubts ...

Bamiyan Valley in 2010, with the hole where one of the Buddha statues was demolished (photograph by Afghanistan Matters/Wikimedia) After a reconstruction effort covertly built what appeared to be the ...

This month the two sixth-century Buddhas of Bamiyan demolished in Afghanistan were temporarily returned to their towering places in the Bamiyan cliffs through 3D projection. A 3D projection of one of ...

The Taliban governor of Bamiyan in Afghanistan has been digging beneath the remains of the Bamiyan Buddhas in search of buried treasure. Afghan scholars are horrified by the news of further ...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan — Sayed Mirza Hussain faced a wrenching dilemma: commit a shocking act of cultural destruction or be shot by the Taliban. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reimagining the 6th-century Buddhas of Bamiyan, destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s sculpture stands ...

Ten years ago, the Taliban destroyed the great Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan, two giant statues that watched over the Bamiyan Valley for 1,500 years. Extensive studies of the rubble have revealed new ...

Bamiyan was an important commercial and monastic centre from the second century CE. It was a meeting point of Persian and ...