AFGHANISTAN Bamiyan Kakrak valley watchtower at ruins which were once the site of a 21ft standing Buddha


in a niche 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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