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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On 27-30 September 2017, UNESCO, together with the Government of Afghanistan and Tokyo University of the Arts, convened a three-day closed technical meeting followed by a public Symposium in Tokyo, ...

First lady Laura Bush looks at a photograph of the ancient towering Bamiyan Buddhas, which were blown up by the Taliban last year, as she visits an Afghan art exhibit at the Musee Guimet in Paris on ...