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Beginning during the Soviet occupation that carried through the Taliban insurgence, it is said the Kabul Museum was arguably one of the greatest casualties Afghanistan suffered. As a result of the Soviet and Taliban occupation, more than two thirds of the museums treasures and artifacts were lost or destroyed. [11]
In February and March 2001, the Taliban destroyed countless pieces of art due to religious reasons. [17] It was reported in November 2001 that the Taliban had destroyed at least 2,750 ancient works of art during the year. [18] Courtyard of the building in 2010. Between 2003 and 2006, about $350,000 was spent to refurbish the building.
As a result, more than two-thirds (66%) of the one hundred thousand museum treasures and artifacts were lost or destroyed. [26] A pair of 6th-century monumental statues known as the Buddhas of Bamiyan were dynamited by the Taliban in March 2001, [27] who had declared them heretical idols. The world's oldest oil paintings were discovered in ...
Now that the Taliban are in control, he said, he feels free to tour the country. “I was young when these were destroyed, about 7 years old, and since then it has been a dream to come and see ...
The Taliban seized control of Kabul on Sunday after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country and its Western-trained security forces collapsed. On Monday, chaotic scenes unfolded at Kabul's ...
The Taliban's morality ministry dismissed more than 280 members of the security force for failure to grow a beard and detained more than 13,000 people in Afghanistan for "immoral acts" in the past ...
The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th-century [59] monumental statues carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley of central Afghanistan that were destroyed in March 2001, [60] after the Taliban government declared that they were idols. [61] International and local opinion strongly condemned the destruction of the Buddhas. [59]
The Taliban movement in Afghanistan banned photography and destroyed non-Muslim artifacts, especially carvings and statues such as the Buddhas of Bamiyan, generally tolerated by other Muslims, on the grounds that the artifacts are idolatrous or shirk.