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Bamiyan ValleyArchive of news articles on external web sites. For mongabay-specific articles, please see http://www.mongabay.com/xml-list.htmlWired BlogsIn 2001, Bamiyan Valley was the scene of the Taliban's most dramatic act of vandalism: the destruction of the giant Buddha statues. Tourism in Afghanistan? - Jul 24, 2009 The New AmericanWith the completion of a new Tourist Information Center in the isolated Bamiyan Valley, local officials, residents, foreign donors, and a handful of Gold, Ivory Treasures Hidden From Taliban Shine at Afghan Show - Jul 9, 2009 BloombergThat's more than 700 years before two colossal Buddhas, one of Afghanistan's biggest treasures, were carved into the side of a cliff in Bamiyan valley. Prospects For Environmental Protection In Afghanistan Improve - Jul 10, 2009 RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty...when it announced the creation of its first national park to protect a spectacular series of six deep blue lakes in the central Bamiyan Valley. SCARLET SEEDS - Feb 5, 2009 Calcutta Telegraph,...the lingering aroma of perished blossoms and a grand reclining head of the Buddha, presumably a relic of the Bamiyan valley, staring, as it were, Discoveries from the golden crossroads - 16 Nov 2008 Sacramento Bee,Determined to purge Afghanistan of depictions of humans and false gods, they blew up the Buddhas of Bamiyan Valley and smashed even the smallest of graven The Big Question: What is a World Heritage Site, and does the ... - Nov 6, 2008 Independent,Two 150ft statues of Buddha carved into a mountain in the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan in the 6th century, and which were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, A Must-See Pro-Israel Film - Nov 6, 2008 FrontPage magazine.com,...the Palestinian Authority would be disastrous for the holy sites because we have seen across the Middle East from the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan to Afghanistan. Ancient 'sleeping Buddha' found - Sep 9, 2008 Ottawa Citizen,An Afghan archeologist has discovered the remains of an ancient 19-metre-long "sleeping Buddha" in central Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley, a government Tough sell: Touring audacious Afghanistan - Jul 24, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle,...journey from Kabul on a dirt road that winds high up into the snowcapped Koh-i-Baba mountains before dipping down into the verdant Bamiyan Valley. Drama highlights Afghan war crimes - Jul 16, 2008 BBC News,By Alastair Leithead A blood-curdling scream rings out over the Bamiyan valley as the man in the white mask, his hands tied with red wire, tries to free ESRF Finds Oil in Cave Art - Apr 23, 2008 Photonics.com,The world's largest statue of Buddha (174 ft high), shown in the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan 1963. The statue was one of two destroyed by the Taliban in Oldest Oil Paintings Found in Afghanistan - Feb 19, 2008 Discovery Channel19, 2008 -- The oldest known oil painting, dating from 650 AD, has been found in caves in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley, according to a team of Japanese, Scientists say Bamiyan has world's oldest oil paintings - Jan 23, 2008 The Daily Yomiuri,Wall paintings on ruins in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley are the world's oldest oil paintings, dating to the late seventh century, according to research by Violence not only images out of Afghanistan - Jan 27, 2008 Contra Costa Times,The Red City, or Shahr-i-Zohak, sprawls out over three levels atop a red cliff mountain at the entrance to the Bamiyan valley. Sultani, my driver, used to Developing countries reap benefits of wireless comms - Feb 17, 2008 Eetasia.com (subscription)When people in the Bamiyan Valley learned that the area was "connected" to the outside world, they moved the regional bazaar to Bamiyan. World's first oil paintings in Afghan caves: expert - Jan 24, 2008 AFPA group of Japanese, European and US scientists are collaborating to restore damaged murals in caves in the Bamiyan Valley, famous for its two gigantic World's Earliest Oil Paintings ... in Afghanistan? - Jan 27, 2008 About - News & Issues,European and American scientists [collaborating] in caves in the Bamiyan Valley" (where the Taliban destroyed two ancient Buddha statues in 2001). Despite war, Afghanistan’s beauty survives - Nov 4, 2007 Online - International News Network,The Red City, or Shahr-i-Zohak, sprawls over three levels atop a red cliff mountain at the entrance to the Bamiyan valley. Sultani, my driver, used to play Memoirs of Afghanistan sojourn - Nov 18, 2007 Merinews,He also visited the Bamiyan valley to see the famous Buddha statues, later destroyed by the Taliban. AFGHANISTAN IN THE Seventy’s was an arena for a tug of Islamists agains attack giant Buddha of Swat - Nov 10, 2007 Spero NewsFor the second time in less than a month, the giant Buddha of Swat Valley in northwestern Pakistan has been attacked by Islamists. No ordinary trip: Visiting Afghanistan - Oct 17, 2007 CNN InternationalThe Red City, or Shahr-i-Zohak, sprawls out over three levels atop a red cliff mountain at the entrance to the Bamiyan valley. Sultani, my driver, used to The Giant Buddhas highlight festival - Oct 17, 2007 Waterloo Chronicle,For 1500 years, two gigantic Buddha statues stood in their niches cut in the cliff flanking the remote Bamiyan valley of present day Afghanistan. How to holiday in Afghanistan - Oct 19, 2007 Times Online,These happily include two places that will be high on the list of tourist attractions for any future visitor: the Bamiyan valley, where the giant Buddha From Occupied Afghanistan - Sep 27, 2007 The Dominion,From Bamiyan, we also went to Yakaolang (which is a few hours away from the Bamiyan valley) – and we went back to Kabul from there. Terrorist attack damages Pakistan Buddha - Oct 4, 2007 UNESCO World Heritage Centre (press release),The Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley were inscribed simultaneously on the World Heritage List and the List of World Afghan girl's struggle for learning showcased at Spain film fest - Sep 23, 2007 Middle East Times,Set in central Afghanistan's Bamiyan valley, where the Taliban blew up the two giant Buddhas in 2001, Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame is "a very Wayne Wang wins best film award at San Sebastian festival - Sep 29, 2007 AFPSet in central Afghanistan's Bamiyan valley, where the Taliban blew up the two giant Buddhas in 2001, the movie depicts a young Afghan girl's harrowing US senators seek endangered listing for Waterton - Sep 28, 2007 Globe and Mail,Islands (Ecuador), Simien National Park (Ethiopia), the walled city of Baku (Azerbaijan) and the cultural landscape of the Bamiyan Valley (Afghanistan). Rebuilding Bamiyan - Jul 23, 2007 Aljazeera.net,In 2001 the Taliban swept through Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley. Their target was Bamiyan's colossal stone Buddha statues which had stood for over 1500 years 900-foot sleeping Buddha eludes archaeologists in Afghanistan - Aug 7, 2007 PakTribune.com,...a three-tiered, 3rd century BC palace complex hewn from red stone and clinging to a cliff 1500 feet above the floor of the Bamiyan Valley. Zabid to stay on UNESCO List of World Heritage in Danger - Aug 7, 2007 Yemen Observer,Other sites in danger include the Iranian city of Bam and the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan. The ancient citadel and surrounding cultural landscape of the Experts Decry Taliban Distortion of Islamic Law - Aug 2, 2007 Chosun Ilbo,However, the Taliban is a disgrace to Islam and an extremely distorted group, which once destroyed the Buddhist statues in the Bamiyan Valley, Taliban Denounced Around the World - Jul 26, 2007 Chosun Ilbo,They destroyed the Buddhist statues in the Bamiyan Valley, a cultural treasure of the world." Lee Hee-soo, a professor at Hanyang University and an expert Goethe-Institute celebrates Golden Jubilee with several programmes - Jul 26, 2007 Ceylon Daily News,June 27: "Giant Buddhas-The loss of 1600 years old Buddhas in Bamiyan Valley. Afghanistan." July 18: "Ladakh" by Clemens Kuby, Munich July 25: "Living Banff Mountain Film Festival 2006 prizes: Of tiger and men Nov 7, 2006 Switzerland), in which director Christian Frei, documents the destruction of 1,600-year-old Buddhas carved into the cliffs of the Bamiyan Valley (Afghanistan). ... - Mounteverest, Afghanistan: Film Revisits Destruction Of Bamiyan Buddhas Mar 26, 2006 WASHINGTON, March 26, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- The film begins with a scene of stark beauty: the great Bamiyan Valley in remote northeastern Afghanistan. ... RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Digital Methods Help Replicate Artworks Mar 3, 2006 Such is the case of the giant 1,600-year-old Buddha statues in the Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan that were dynamited by the Taliban in 2001. ... New York Times, Ways of Peace: Forgiveness can break cycle of violence Mar 9, 2006 ...direction. The rage of the Taliban against ‘Buddhist idolatry’ led them to vandalize the Bamiyan Valley Buddhas in Afghanistan. ... 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