AFGHANISTAN, Bamiyan, Kakrak valley, "Empty niche in which once stood a 21ft standing Buddha, - discovered in 1030 and surrounded by caves whose Buddhists paintings thought to date from the 9th and 9th Centuries AD but removed by French archaeologists and put in the National musuem in Kabul"
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AFGHANISTAN, Bamiyan, Kakrak valley, "Empty niche in which once stood a 21ft standing Buddha, - discovered in 1030 and surrounded by caves whose Buddhists paintings thought to date from the 9th and 9th Centuries AD but removed by French archaeologists and put in the National musuem in Kabul"

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Jane Sweeney eye ubiquitous / hutchison

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