The Taliban's rule threatens what's left of Afghanistan's dazzlingly diverse cultural history
- Written by Julian Droogan, Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University
The Tailban destroyed this Buddha statue dating to the 6th century AD in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, in March 2001. The photo on the left was taken in 1977.
AP Photo/Etsuro Kondo, (left photo) and Osamu Semba, both AsahiDespite cliched talk of a “graveyard of empires”, what we now call Afghanistan has for thousands of years been an...

















