KABUL 2011 (AFP) - Ten years after Afghanistan's ancient Bamiyan Buddhas were blown up by the Taliban ... their leader Mullah Mohammed Omar ordered that the two "anti-Islamic" giant stone statues be ...

Christian Frei's documentary traces the tragic tale of the giant Buddhas of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley, which stood as monumental landmarks for 1,500 years until 2001, when the Taliban declared ...

This is no ordinary sculpture but one modelled on the Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan which was destroyed by the Taleban in 2001. Why a replica of the Bamiyan Buddha is being sculpted in the Kurunegala ...

A Hazara Afghan family looks on in front of their cave in the old city of Bamiyan, some 200km from Kabul. - AFP Bamiyan - The ancient caves lining the Bamiyan valley in central Afghanistan were ...

The site is also testimony to the tragic destruction by the Taliban of the two standing Buddha statues, which shook the world in March 2001. on this subject: Cultural Landscape and Archaeological ...