The Taliban says it wants people to visit Afghanistan. Here’s what it’s like
In the distance, he could see white snow-capped mountains, greenery and blossoming trees spread across Afghanistan’s Bamiyan ...
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Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley
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Museum of the Bible unveils world’s ‘oldest Jewish book’ in new exhibit
created by Jews living as a minority among Buddhists who ruled the Bamiyan Valley in modern-day Afghanistan. Measuring five inches by five inches, the book combines a variety of texts written by ...
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Paisaje cultural y vestigios arqueológicos del Valle de Bamiyán
The cultural landscape and archaeological remains of the Bamiyan Valley represent the artistic and religious developments which from the 1st to the 13th centuries characterized ancient Bakhtria, ...
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Bactrian Greeks, the Bamiyan and Avukana Buddha statues
Around 30,000 Greek bhikkhus had arrived in Anuradhapura from the monasteries of Alasanda (the city of the Yonas, Alexandria in present Afghanistan) according to Geiger’s Mahavamsa (chapter XX1X (39)) ...
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A 1970s Visit to Bamiyan
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 ...
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World's oldest Jewish text debuts exhibit at Museum of the Bible
The book is also said to hold a connection to the Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan. Upon discovering the text, a group of Muslims, Christians, and Jews worked together to rescue the historic document ...