Afghanistan: The Bamiyan Buddhas     Click here to read about the history and significance of the Bamiyan Buddhas. Click here to see closeups of the Buddhas before their destruction. Click here to see accounts of an international effort to reconstruct a scale model of the Bamiyan Buddhas. Click here to see a collection of 3D animations of the great statues, assembled from various photos and calibrated into an interactive computer model.     << Knightsbridge mission |