They were among the first artists in the world to depict the Buddha in realistic, human form—a Hellenistic innovation from the days of Alexander the Great, who first marched through Afghanistan ...

MES AYNAK, Afghanistan--The ancient Buddha statues sit in serene meditation in the caves carved into the russet cliffs of rural Afghanistan. Hundreds of meters below lies what is believed to be ...

Gandhara — whose center was situated in present-day Peshawar in northwest Pakistan — encompassed Bamiyan in Afghanistan, Bactria, the Hindu Kush, and the Punjab region of northwest India. Buddhism ...

Afghanistan has marked two decades since the famous Bamiyan Buddhas were destroyed by the Taliban The ancient sandstone carvings in Afghanistan's Bamiyan valley were once the world's tallest ...

Balkh, including northern Afghanistan's largest city Mazar-i-Sharif ... the world when they blew up the 1,500-year-old Bamiyan Buddhas, once the largest standing Buddha statues in the world ...

They have arrived with hard currency that Afghanistan desperately needs. Many tourists have experienced the country’s ...

sculpted imposing images of the Buddha in standing position in the Bamiyan Region in Afghanistan which were destroyed by the Taliban a few years ago. These images Professor Perera states led to the ...