{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"Buddhist Remains of Bamiyan","author_name":"","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article768.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article768.html'\u003EBuddhist Remains of Bamiyan\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWMF STAFF EVALUATION SUMMARY Review: Angela M.H. Schuster \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\nBuddhist Remains of Bamiyan Bamiyan Valley, Afghanistan A.D.600 \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\nSIGNIFICANCE \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\nIn March 2001, the preservation world stood speechless as the Taliban destroyed the famous colossal Buddhas of Bamiyan, hewn out of living rock at the dawn of the seventh century A.D. and hailed as extraordinary examples of Gandharan sculpture in Central Asia, evident in their exquisite blend of Indian, Hellenistic, Roman, and Sassanian artistic (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}