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World Heritage Sites/Buddhas of Bamiyan
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The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two huge statues of Gautama Buddha in the Bamyan Province of Afghanistan. The Western Buddha was the larger Buddha with a height of 55 meters and was built around 618 AD. The smaller Eastern Buddha had a height of 38 meters and was built around 570 AD. They were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001 using dynamite.
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