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Afghans Pin Hopes on Resurrected Buddha, Afghans Hope a Resurrected Buddha Can Breathe New Life Into Their Impoverished World by admin in Culture visit site

Five years after the Taliban blew them up, Afghan laborers are picking up the pieces of two once-towering Buddha statues, hoping they will rise again and breathe new life into this dirt-poor province. While they wait for the Afghan government and international community to decide whether to rebuild them, a $1.3 million UNESCO-funded project is sorting out the chunks of clay and plaster _ ranging from boulders weighing several tons to fragments the size of tennis balls _ and shelt...