The Buddhas of Bamiyan
How do you carve the two largest standing Buddhas on Earth out of a cliff so weak it crumbles under a tenth of the load ordinary concrete carries — and how much of what stood there for fourteen centuries was actually rock at all?
c. 544-595 CE (Eastern Buddha) and c. 591-644 CE (Western Buddha), by radiocarbon dating · Bamyan Valley, Bamyan Province, AfghanistanAdded August 2026