Harold Stump World Architecture Slide Collection:
Collection Highlights - Afghanistan
Colossal Buddha | Vernacular Afghani Architecture

Colossal Buddha, Bamian: 2,000 year old rock-cut Buddha figure carved into cliffside. Approximately 60 slides of the site with examples of frescoes, details of carving, and adjacent shrines cut into cliff. Site destroyed in March 2001 by Afghani government.