The volatile, uncertain, and conflictual relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan would not let China extend the branches ...

Whether due to natural disasters or thanks to the destructive tendencies of mankind, these iconic cultural touchstones no ...

Herschel Hepler was browsing Google Images to practice his paleography mdash the study of historical writing systems mdash ...

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

described her travels to view the spectacular Buddhas of Bamiyan, which would be destroyed by the Taliban two decades ago. Within its pages are vivid descriptions of Kabul’s streets, lush ...

Buddhas of Bamiyan: The colossal twin statues that stood sentinel over Afghanistan — until the Taliban destroyed them What it tells us about the past: Considered one of the most famous Neolithic ...

As a part of a television broadcast, world travelers Hal and Halla Linker toured the Afghan countryside in 1973, years before the Soviets invaded and the Taliban took control of the Buddhist site ...

The two decades following the fall of the Taliban in ... civilians was not new. Bamiyan is a name that is well-known worldwide. The March 2001 destruction of the giant Buddha statues carved ...

The protections are meant to dissuade acts like the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas by the Taliban in Afghanistan, which was called a "crime against culture" by UNESCO in 2001. In Western ...