"The Bamiyan Buddhas were shockingly dynamited in February of 2001, after inhabiting their niches for almost fifteen hundred years. They had been the largest examples of standing /Buddha carvings in the world and had been designated by UNESCO, the United Nation's Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, as a World Heritage site. Now they lay in a pile of rubble." quoted from page 257 of this book.
Above are photos of one of the Bamiyan Buddhas before and after its destruction by Taliban. I never knew about this until now that I'm reading this book....
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