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| I had an idea for a sculpture, a rather obvious idea because it's in the news now. This 3rd (?) century giant Buddha cliff-statue was just demolished in Afghanistan. Here are some articles with 1997 photos: good photo - (URL) - (URL) nice photos: (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.ancient)
| | | | | Re: Bamiyan Buddhas
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| There is talk starting about rebuilding the Bamiyan Buddhas: (URL) didn't understand that these statues don't belong to the Taliban. They belong to Afghanistan, to human history." --Amanulah Haiderzad, sculptor (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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| (...) What a great opportunity to rebuild them out of LEGO! (Sorry, I know, I should be more sombre. ;) ) LFB (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.build.ancient)
| | | | | Re: Bamiyan Buddhas
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| I hadn't got much further than collecting photos. There were several articles about Bamiyan in the past two years of _Minerva_, a journal of ancient art and archaeology. The editor made one remark I'd like to bring up here (I'll have to retrieve (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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