Roger Highfield in The Telegraph, UK:
In 2001 the Taliban destroyed two ancient colossal Buddha statues in the Afghan region of Bamiyan, around 140 miles northwest of Kabul, which were hewn out of sandstone cliffs in the sixth century and, measuring up to 55 metres, were the biggest of their kind.
Although caves decorated with precious murals from 5th to 9th century A.D. also suffered from Taliban attacks on this World Heritage Site, they have since become the focus of a major discovery, revealing Buddhist oil paintings that predate those in Renaissance Europe by hundreds of years.
Similar Posts:
- Faces of the Divine
- Not your father’s Taliban
- The Chandigarh dream
- Parag Khanna at TED
- CIA’s latest weapon against al-Qaida: A mysterious ‘chip’
0 Responses to “Oil painting ‘invented in Asia, not Europe’”
Leave a Reply