Buddhas of Bamyan
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Monumental statues of Gautam Buddha were carved into the cliff-face at Bamyan, located in the Bamyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, The statues were, respectively, 35 and 53 m tall. They were intentionally destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/122728089
34.831944, 67.826667
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Buddhas of Bamyan (330 BC - 100 BC) accuracy: +/- 2000 meters.
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- Buddhas of Bamiyan (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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Jeffrey Becker, 'Buddhas of Bamyan: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/122728089> [accessed: 24 April 2025]
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