Twenty years after the destruction of #Afghanistan’s #Buddhas of #Bamiyan by the #Taliban, #Paris’s Guimet Museum is paying tribute to the dramatic 6th and 7th-century sculptures, to French archaeologists Joseph and Ria Hackin, who revealed the statues to the Western world nearly a century ago, and to the people of Bamiyan, the Hazara Shiites slain by the Taliban at the dawn of this century.
Paris’s Guimet Museum brings Bamiyan Buddhas back to life, 20 years on
