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Home / Science / Social Sciences / Archaeology / Regional / Asia / Afghanistan / Sites and Monuments
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- Ancient Buddhist City Uncovered in Afghanistan - From Ananova, villagers in Afghanistan have uncovered a lost Buddhist city thought to date back to the 2nd Century.
www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_638491.html
- Bamiyan - Two great figures of Buddha in the Bamiyan valley northwest of Kabul date from the Kushan Dynasty; the larger is 53 m high and the smaller is 120 feet.
www.afghan-network.net/Culture/bamian.html
- Dusty Mounds Unravel Clues to Vanished Afghan Past - From the Indian Express, beneath a series of mounds lie clues to a civilization that flourished long before Islam embraced Afghanistan.
www.indian-express.com/full_story.php?content_id=6462
- Experts Defer Buddhas' Rebuilding - From BBC News, conservation experts meeting in Kabul to rescue Afghan cultural heritage decide Kabul Museum should be restored before the giant statues.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_2015000/2015189.stm
- The Bamiyan Tragedy - Illustrated report on the destruction by the ruling Taliban militia of the ancient Buddha statues at Bamiyan. History of the statues, UN and Buddhist protest.
www.sibv.org/bv21.htm
- The Buddhas of Bamiyan - An illustrated article by Jet van Krieken on the giant statues of Buddha hewn out from the rocks in the valley of Bamiyan, destroyed by the Taliban.
www.purabudaya.com/resources/bamiyan/bamiyan.htm
- The Buddhas of Bamiyan - An online version of an exhibition at the Courtauld Institute of Art of photographs taken in 1934 by Robert Byron of the colossal Buddhas at Bamiyan. Includes history of the huge Buddhist monastery.
www.courtauld.ac.uk/Pages/bamiyan_buddhas.html
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