The empty niches that once held Bamiyan's colossal Buddhas now gape in the rock face — a silent cry at the terrible destruction wrought on this fabled valley and its 1,500-year-old treasures, once the largest standing Buddha statues in the world.
The empty niches that once held Bamiyan's colossal Buddhas now gape in the rock face — a silent cry at the terrible destruction wrought on this fabled valley and its 1,500-year-old treasures, once the largest standing Buddha statues in the world.
一度为巴米扬巨佛落座的空洞佛龛如今岩面崩裂坍塌，似在对这个为人传诵的山谷及其有1,500年历史的古迹，那个一度是世界上最大的立佛雕像，遭到恐怖摧残的无声呐喊。