Buddhas of Bamiyan
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Oct 9, 2026
Christopher AlamCORRESPONDENT
And because of the Taliban's history of destroying cultural artifacts, it's hard to predict the fate of that archive.
Christopher AlamCORRESPONDENT
Omid likens it to the Buddhas of Bamiyan, colossal 2,000-year-old statues demolished by the Taliban in 2001.
Christopher AlamCORRESPONDENT
They destroyed that
speaker_4UNKNOWN
because they were just enraged.