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.
A 27-foot-tall recreation of a Buddha statue destroyed by the Taliban 25 years ago now towers over 10th Avenue from the High ...
The latest High Line Plinth commission reimagines Afghanistan’s 6th-century Buddhas of Bamiyan, destroyed by the Taliban in ...
Dinosaurs 'He began to cry, and almost fell to the floor': The fluffy fossil that finally showed the world that birds are dinosaurs Romans Altar to Sol: A rare 1,900-year-old monument dedicated to the ...
A 30 foot tall sandstone Buddha, titled “The Light That Shines Through the Universe” now rises above 10th Avenue on the High ...
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 ...