Women walk past the cliffs that once held the giant
Bamiyan Buddhas. They were destroyed by the Taliban in
2001
Alexander Burnes 1834
A view of snow-capped mountains and the lush green valley below where a Buddha statue
stood
One of the Bamiyan Buddhas before it was destroyed in 2001.
A 3D light projection last month in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, of how a destroyed
Buddha, known as Solsol to locals, might have looked in its prime.
