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 ...

exploring Buddhist art and ruins in Bamiyan and shopping in the bustling bazaars of Kabul, all while experiencing the ...

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 ...

Afghanistan's Mes Aynak region, 20 miles from Kabul, is making headlines, and not because of insurgent violence. Mes Aynak is garnering international press attention due to the probable destruction of ...

and a coin with Buddhist imagery. In 1988 the president of Afghanistan, Mohammad Najibullah, made a fateful decision. After years of combat, exhausted Soviet troops were finally withdrawing from ...

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 ...

New Delhi: Afghanistan’s province of Nuristan was ... “It was ruled by a Buddhist Kshatriya king. It was known as Kapish Janapada. The king here had influence over the surrounding 10 kingdoms.

Two German-speaking Swiss men, Paul Bucherer-Dietschi and Bernard Weber, have established a consortium which plans to rebuild one of two obliterated Buddha statues in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley.