Today, two Afghan sites are registered on the UNESCO World Heritage List, the Bamiyan Valley, including the remains of the Buddhas, and the Minaret of Jam, a 65-metre Islamic minaret built by ...

Today, two Afghan sites are registered on the UNESCO World Heritage List, the Bamiyan Valley, including the remains of the Buddhas, and the Minaret of Jam, a 65-metre Islamic minaret built by ...

Neural networks like the one described the recent paper could resurrect lost heritage that only exists in images—for example, the Bamiyan Buddhas, monumental statues blown up by the Taliban in ...

Like the Bamiyan Buddhas, the Kahu-jo-daro stupa is now visited on pages of books, photographs, and its digital reconstruction.

Embracing the Bamian site is not only a gesture to archaeologists, Taliban officials suggest, but also a sign the regime is more pragmatic than during its first rule.

He was unable to see the buddhas at Bamiyan on this tour, nor on a subsequent visit, when he returned as part of the Afghan Boundary Commission of 1884-86.

Wednesday marked the first anniversary of the end of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. The longest foreign war in U.S. history came to a close with a chaotic withdrawal that left the country in the ...

21 years after destroying Bamiyan Buddhas, Taliban now seek to preserve Buddhas, in order to woo China Security is China’s number one concern in Afghanistan – particularly preventing the ...

The Bamiyan Buddhas became Afghanistan’s greatest tourist attraction. But, in 2001, Mullah Omar decreed that they were un-Islamic idols and had to be destroyed.

The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th-century monumental statues of Vairocana Buddha and Gautama Buddha. Today these Buddha statues are not to be seen as they were blown up by the Taliban by using ...

The memory of the Taliban’s criminal destruction of the 1,500-year-old Buddhas of Bamiyan in March 2001 is still very much alive and viewed across the world as a prime example of barbarism ...

Microsoft teams up with UNESCO and kids to revive lost monuments with Minecraft by Alan Boyle on May 3, 2019 at 12:22 pm ...