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 ...

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. Now ...

KABUL, (ANI) – An ancient Buddhist city near Kabul is in danger of disappearing forever, according to media reports, which hint that the city – one of the world’s largest copper deposits, is being ...

A massive domed stupa carved out of sandstone lies silent in Afghanistan’s hills, its purpose lost to time and conquest. Ghostly caves and ancient coin hoards hint at a vanished Buddhist spiritual ...

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 ...

Among world religions, only Buddhism and Christianity attach a central significance to the role of relics. These two traditions, however, are different in both conceptual and material terms. In ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 62-foot Buddha statue along with scores of other historical relics in central Afghanistan near the ruins of giant statues destroyed by the Islamist Taliban seven years ...

It had the potential to be another Afghanistan Buddha disaster, recalling the Taliban’s destruction of two ancient statues that had stood for centuries in this country’s west: A buried Buddhist city ...

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One of the most striking sights at the National Museum of Afghanistan these days isn’t inside the museum, but by its front gates. Young, armed Taliban guards protect the entrance, searching visitors ...

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