The Buddhas of Bamiyan, two monumental 6th-century statues that were destroyed in 2001, were brought back to life last weekend via light projections, the Atlantic reports. The statues, carved into a ...

The Taliban governor of Bamiyan in Afghanistan has been digging beneath the remains of the Bamiyan Buddhas in search of buried treasure. Afghan scholars are horrified by the news of further ...

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, ...

(CNN)-- Thursday is "Chinese night" at the Hotel Silk Road in Afghanistan's Bamiyan province. Hungry guests sip cans of Coke and nonalcoholic beer and pick at a buffet that includes General Tsao's ...

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BAMIYAN, Afghanistan -- The Afghan official in charge of looking after the archeological remains in Bamiyan Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage site, says they are threatened with complete annihilation.

The projected image of a Buddha statue in Bamiyan that had been destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. (AFP Photo) Kabul: Fourteen years after the Taliban dynamited the world-famous Buddhas of Bamiyan, the ...

Tuan Andrew Nguyen's “The Light That Shines Through the Universe” (2026) glimmers warmly on the High Line plinth (all photos Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic) Between the sea of sky-blue high-rise windows ...

The central highland province of Bamiyan has long been an island of security in the rising tide of Afghanistan's insurgency, largely insulated from the blasts and gunfire that have become commonplace ...

Evidence has also emerged of Bosnian-style ethnic cleansing in the region involving the execution of hundreds of local ethnic Hazara men. BBC correspondent David Loyn reached Bamiyan on Tuesday, ...

In 2001, in a violent attempt to advance the cause of Islamic fundamentalism, a clutch of men empowered by the Taliban brought down a titanic pair of structures that loomed over their skyline. No ...