Posted on 10/09/2026 8:10:34 PM PDT by Beowulf9
The Bamiyan Buddhas: Giants of the Silk Road, Gone But Not Forgotten For nearly 1,500 years, the Bamiyan Buddhas stood watch over the Silk Road.
Carved into the sandstone cliffs of Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley in the 6th century, these monumental statues — one rising about 55 meters tall, the other 38 — were among the largest standing Buddhas in the world. They gazed out across a crossroads of civilizations, where merchants, monks, pilgrims, and conquerors once passed between East and West.
(Excerpt) Read more at thearchaeologist.org ...
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interesting, maybe
Just another example of why Islam is incompatible with civilization.
Islam and ALL things DEmocrat DESTROY BEAUTIFUL THINGS!!!! THEY DESPISE BEAUTIFUL!
Another incident was the controversial loss of the nose of the Sphinx. In Cosmos, Carl Sagan said “The Sphinx is missing a nose. Someone shot it off in a moment of idle desecration – some say it was Mameluke Turks, others, Napoleonic soldiers”.
But debunkers believe he was wrong.
“Many historians point to a 15th-century account describing a Sufi Muslim named Muhammad Sa’im al-Dahr damaging the nose and face in 1378, reportedly in response to local villagers making offerings to the Sphinx — an act the account describes as motivated by religious objection to what he saw as idolatry. He was, according to the account, later punished for the act.”
—gemsofegypt.com/
On the way to using air hammers, chisels and dynamite to destroy priceless historical artifacts, Islamists took time to torture an old man——
Article Title:
Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities
Khaled al-Asaad, 82, was interrogated by militants for a month before he was murdered in the ancient city.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/18/isis-beheads-archaeologist-syria
I remember when they were destroyed by the Taliban. That was a huge Abomination IMO.
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