Clad in a safari suit, sun hat, hiking boots and leather gloves, Zemaryalai Tarzi leads the way from his tent to a rectangular pit in the Bamiyan Valley of northern Afghanistan. Crenulated sandstone ...

Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s sandstone and brass take on the destroyed Bamiyan Buddhas reminds passersby that history repeats.

The latest High Line Plinth commission reimagines Afghanistan’s 6th-century Buddhas of Bamiyan, destroyed by the Taliban in ...

The Associated PressBAMIYAN, Afghanistan -- A year after the Taliban blew up two towering ancient Buddha statues, Afghan leader Hamid Karzai promised Tuesday to rebuild them, calling their destruction ...

Bamyan Valley and the enclosure where the Buddha figure once stood The baked biscuit cliffs of Bamyan shimmered in the dawn glow, the massive blank Buddha niches gaping like painfully missing molars.

When the Taliban were driven from power in 2001, they left behind a broken country and an infamous act of destruction: reducing to rubble two... Preserving Memory of Afghanistan's Giant Buddhas ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan has halted conservation work at a site once occupied by ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban because the team involved is suspected of secretly trying to ...