Crawl back through history 1,500 years to the Valley of Bamiyan, central Afghanistan, in the 6th Century. You’d see Buddhist monks laboriously and meticulously etching two large statues of Buddha from the valley’s formidable sandstone cliffs. In 507 AD, the smaller of the two was completed, standing at an epic 35 meters in height. And, in 554 AD, the taller twin was finished, towering at 53 meters in height. Once the largest standing Buddha carvings in the world, the Buddhas of Bamiyan somehow managed to survive the numerous empires passing through and developing out of the great country for hundreds of years, but, on March 12, 2001, they were destroyed by dynamite upon orders from Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar.…
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