For the Buddhas of Bamiyan, there is no scarcity of donors. Japan, China and other countries with large Buddhist populations have offered their help, but this raises thorny religious issues.

4 The empty space where a Buddha statue once stood in Bamiyan as it appeared in February 2021. 5 A photo of the archaeological site at Bamiyan, which was taken in May 1968 during an official visit ...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan — The Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues in early 2001 shocked the world and highlighted their hard-line regime, toppled soon after in a U.S.-led invasion.

The World Heritage Committee, 1. Inscribes the Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley, Afghanistan, on the World Heritage List on the basis of cultural criteria (i), (ii), ...

On 27-30 September 2017, UNESCO, together with the Government of Afghanistan and Tokyo University of the Arts, convened a three-day closed technical meeting followed by a public Symposium in Tokyo, ...

JOANNA KAKISSIS: Bert Praxenthaler is leading people through a tunnel behind what was once the eastern Buddha statue of Bamiyan. Mr. BERT PRAXENTHALER (Art Historian): We are now on top of the Buddha.

All things change; nothing is permanent," runs the old Buddhist saw, in no case more pertinent than Afghanistan's remote Bamiyan valley, whose two giant stone statues were blown to smithereens by ...

The most famous monuments in Bamiyan were two large Buddha statues carved into niches in the valley’s cliffs 15 centuries ago. They are still significant global sites even after the Taliban blew up ...

Ten years ago, the Taliban systematically destroyed the great Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan—two giant statues that watched over the Bamiyan Valley for 1500 years. Now, extensive studies of the ...

Snows are melting in central Afghanistan and roads to the town of Bamiyan have reopened after unseasonal rain -- and work on restoring the giant Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban can resume.