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Bamyan Buddha statues in central Afghanistan may be rebuilt by 2009 by admin in Culture visit site

Some workers are clearing and sorting out the pieces of the two best-known disrupted Bamyan Buddha statues in central Afghanistan's Bamyan province, and an official told Xinhua a possible project of rebuilding the statues may be wrapped up by the end of 2009 if everything goes smoothly. At the site, hundreds of meters north of Bamyan city, capital of the province, some Afghan workers with yellow safety helmets were clearing and collecting the two statues' pieces with shovels an...