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Bamiyan Buddha
Among the tallest standing Buddhas in the world, the Bamiyan, Afghanistan Buddhas stood 53 meters (175 feet) and 34.5 meters tall.
The statues were carved into the sides of the mountains bordering the central province of Bamiyan during the second and third centuries AD.
For centuries they gazed benevolently from their mountain homes as wars raged across the Afghan plains in central Bamiyan province, about 144 km west of Kabul.
But the two massive Buddha statues have become casualties, destroyed by command of the Afghan Taleban in early March 2001.
Bamiyan Buddha
Among the tallest standing Buddhas in the world, the Bamiyan, Afghanistan Buddhas stood 53 meters (175 feet) and 34.5 meters tall.
The statues were carved into the sides of the mountains bordering the central province of Bamiyan during the second and third centuries AD.
For centuries they gazed benevolently from their mountain homes as wars raged across the Afghan plains in central Bamiyan province, about 144 km west of Kabul.
But the two massive Buddha statues have become casualties, destroyed by command of the Afghan Taleban in early March 2001.