Bamiyan (Hazarajat region; Bamiyan province; central Afghanistan);cliff with Buddhist cave monasteries and two colossal Buddha statues(colossal statues carved into the cliff; late Gandhara School; 5th/6th century; height 53m and 36m; destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001).View from the opposite hill; looking at the cliff with cave monasteries and "Little Buddha" (smaller of the two statues).Photo; January 1968.