It takes 10 hours by car to travel 90 miles on the nauseatingly bad road to the Bamiyan Valley. The first stretch of the highway is quite smooth—it was built recently to shuttle American troops ...

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 ...

Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Buddhas were symbols of the country’s rich cultural history. When extremists destroyed them, the world ...

Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Buddhas were a marvel of ancient engineering and culture. When the Taliban destroyed them, the world ...

Ten years ago, the Taliban destroyed the great Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan, two giant statues that watched over the Bamiyan Valley for 1,500 years. Extensive studies of the rubble have revealed new ...

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For years, central Afghanistan's picturesque Bamiyan Valley was scarred by the image of the Buddhist statues destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. But the opening of Afghanistan's first national park, ...

There is a movement to rebuild the Buddhas of Bamiyan, destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, in order to promote tourism in Afghanistan, reports Roads and Kingdoms. One local man, Mohammad Reza Ibrahim, ...

The Buddha monuments in Bamiyan province had stood for 1,500 years but were destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban, who said they were against the Muslim faith - Copyright ...

When Dadali walks past the site where Afghanistan's ancient Bamiyan Buddhas once stood, his "heart bleeds" -- which is understandable, considering he helped destroy them. Over the course of three ...

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The two Buddhas of Bamiyan were constructed in the sixth century, at a time when the area was a site of pilgrimage and learning for Buddhists. Both Buddhas were carved out of sandstone cliffs and ...