The entire collection will be repatriated to Afghanistan as soon as it is safe to do so. In this interview with The Asia Society, Mr Bucherer discusses the collection at the Bibliotheca Afghanica, the ...

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.

The company initially gave archaeologists three years to excavate the site, but the deadline has since been moved up to the end of 2010, signaling the probable destruction of Mes Aynak in a way that ...

MES AYNAK, Afghanistan--The ancient Buddha statues sit in serene meditation in the caves carved into the russet cliffs of rural Afghanistan. Hundreds of meters below lies what is believed to be ...

Afghanistan has marked two decades since the ... the destruction of the centuries-old figures in March 2001. The statues had been carved from the cliff in the early 6th and 7th Centuries AD ...

The horrifying moment a giant statue of Buddha collapsed killing a monk has been captured on film. The 29ft (9m) statue was being built for good luck at the Kaeng Khan Sung Monastery in eastern ...

Since retaking power in Afghanistan in 2021 the Taliban have ... The Taliban government sells tickets to access the site of the Buddha statues. Though the country's civil war ended with the ...