GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -BAMIYAN, Afghanistan-The Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues in early 2001 shocked the world and highlighted their hard-line regime, toppled soon after in a U.S.-led invasion.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Bamiyan Buddhas were carved out of a stony cliffside in central Afghanistan’s Bamyan Valley in the sixth century AD and stood around 180 feet tall for 1, 400 years, until the Taliban blew them up with heavy explosives in 2001, just before the US invasion ended their brief reign over Afghanistan.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 2008, Bamyan was found to be the home of the world’s oldest oil paintings. At the end of the 10th century, there was a Buddhist culture in which several thousand Buddhist monks lived in caves carved into the mountain.