KABUL (Reuters) - Archaeologists have discovered a 19-metre (62-foot) Buddha statue along with scores of other historical relics in central Afghanistan near the ruins of giant statues destroyed by the ...

BAMIAN, Afghanistan -- The giant Buddhas are rubble now, huge piles of rock beneath the cliffside where they stood for 1,500 years. Thick metal casings from bombs and artillery shells that brought ...

March 11 marks the anniversary of the destruction of Bamiyan’s sixth-century Buddha statues by the Taliban in 2001. According to experts, encroaching construction, negligence, and looting are ...

The Associated PressBAMIYAN, Afghanistan -- A year after the Taliban blew up two towering ancient Buddha statues, Afghan leader Hamid Karzai promised Tuesday to rebuild them, calling their destruction ...

Bamiyan Valley in 2010, with the hole where one of the Buddha statues was demolished (photograph by Afghanistan Matters/Wikimedia) After a reconstruction effort covertly built what appeared to be the ...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan — Afghan laborers are collecting the pieces of two once-towering Buddha statues five years after the Taliban blew them up While they wait for the Afghan government and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children sit in front of one of the rock niches in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, where one of two large Buddha statues used to stand. epa ...

BAMIAN, Afghanistan -- Five years after the Taliban blew up the statues, Afghan laborers are picking up the pieces of the two once-towering Buddha figures, hoping they will rise again and breathe new ...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Snows are melting in central Afghanistan and roads to the town of Bamiyan have reopened after unseasonal rain -- and work on restoring the giant Buddha statues ...

Clad in a safari suit, sun hat, hiking boots and leather gloves, Zemaryalai Tarzi leads the way from his tent to a rectangular pit in the Bamiyan Valley of northern Afghanistan. Crenulated sandstone ...

KABUL, Afghanistan - A former regional governor who oversaw the destruction of two massive 1,500-year-old Buddha statues during the Taliban's reign was elected to the Afghan parliament last month, ...

Good morning. I'm Ari Shapiro. For 1,500 years, Buddha statues towered over Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley. In 2001, the Taliban destroyed the statues with explosives. Now the Buddhas have returned in ...