KABUL 2011 (AFP) - Ten years after Afghanistan's ancient Bamiyan Buddhas were blown up by the Taliban, there is still no agreement on whether the war-torn country's best-known cultural icons should be ...

Afghanistan has marked two decades since the famous Bamiyan Buddhas were destroyed by the ... It capped a day of ceremony marking the destruction of the centuries-old figures in March 2001.

The illustration shows the colored appearance of the Bamiyan Buddhas’ robes at the end of the 10th century. Parts damaged in later periods, which cannot be reconstructed, are made visible.

A file photo from March 2024 of a Taliban soldier standing guard in front of the ruins of a 1,500-year-old Buddha statue in Bamiyan Three Spanish tourists have been killed by gunmen in the central ...