Archaeologist Zemaryalai Tarzi can barely bring himself to look at the ravaged cliff face... Hunting for the long-lost sleeping Buddha of Bamian / In 629 A.D., a pilgrim described a 1,000-foot ...

He said the idol, in sleeping posture, ... In 2001 the Taliban blew up two giant standing Buddha statues carved into a cliff face saying they were offensive to Islam, ...

More than seven years after the Taliban destroyed the two giant Buddha statues at Bamiyan, an Afghan-led archaeological team has uncovered the remains of a third giant Buddha nearby, a 19-meter ...

The world looked on helplessly four years ago as Islamic zealots destroyed two enormous standing Buddha statues overlooking Afghanistan's Bamian Valley, but recent explorations at the ancient site ...

Archaeologist Zemaryalai Tarzi can barely bring himself to look at the ravaged cliff face where two ancient Buddhas towered until the Taliban infamously blasted them to bits. "For me, everything ...

In Pakistan, nobody’s losing sleep over the poor state of an 1,800-year-old Buddha statue The Sleeping Buddha was a secret buried under rubble for centuries. In a sense, even after its ...

Two giant cavities about a half-mile apart in the rock face mark the sites where two huge sixth-century statues of the Buddha, destroyed a decade ago by the Taliban, stood for 1,500 years.

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 Islamist ...

The 14-metre statue of Buddha in a state of nirvana — Buddha Parinirvana or the Sleeping Buddha — no longer has a head. Placed on a platform, it was once the centrepiece of a death scene.

Gaya (Bihar) [India], May 13 (ANI): On the occasion of Buddha Purnima on Monday, Buddhist monks gathered near the Sleeping Buddha statue on the banks of river Niranjana in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, and ...