Despite grave world condemnation, Afghanistan's fundamentalist ruling Taliban are said to have used artillery and explosives on Friday to destroy two giant rock-hewn Buddha statues they decry as ...

have established a consortium which plans to rebuild one of two obliterated Buddha statues in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley. The 1800 year old statues were destroyed amidst a whirlwind of publicity ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Afghanistan, where Taliban Islamists are fighting ... are battling an insurgency led by the radical Taliban movement which destroyed Buddhist statues at Bamyan ...

Open Pit Mine Can Save Rather Than Destroy Artifacts ... marched through Afghanistan in 330 B.C. At Mes Aynak chapels have been uncovered with double-life-size Buddha statues still bearing traces ...

Researchers discovered a two-foot-tall Buddha statue in Berenike, an ancient Egyptian port city. It was the first Buddha ever found to the west of Afghanistan. The statue, made from Mediterranean ...