Bamiyan Buddhas
- Bamiyan is situated in the high mountains of the Hindu Kush in the central highlands of Afghanistan.
- The Bamiyan Buddha statues, cut from sandstone cliffs, are said to have dated back to the 5th century AD, and were once the tallest standing Buddhas in the world.
- In their Roman draperies and with two different mudras, the statues were great examples of a confluence of Gupta, Sassanian and Hellenistic artistic styles.
- In 2003, UNESCO included the remains of the Bamiyan Buddhas in its list of world heritage ....
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