Kabul National Museum
Updated On May 28, 2012 08:08 PM IST
1 / 8
Updated on May 28, 2012 08:08 PM IST
A statue is displayed at the Kabul National Museum in Kabul. About 70 % of the museum's 100,000-piece collection was looted by mujaheddin fighters during the civil war of the 1990s and exhibits were damaged by rocket fire. The Taliban, who in 2001 destroyed the giant carved Buddhas in Bamiyan, central Afghanistan, also smashed the museum's pre-Islamic Buddha figures, deeming them un-Islamic. AFP Photo / Aref Karimi
2 / 8
Updated on May 28, 2012 08:08 PM IST
Afghan visitors look at part of the historical collection at the Kabul National Museum in Kabul. About 70 % of the museum's 100,000-piece collection was looted by mujaheddin fighters during the civil war of the 1990s and exhibits were damaged by rocket fire. The Taliban, who in 2001 destroyed the giant carved Buddhas in Bamiyan, central Afghanistan, also smashed the museum's pre-Islamic Buddha figures, deeming them un-Islamic. AFP Photo / Aref Karimi
3 / 8
Updated on May 28, 2012 08:08 PM IST
Statues are displayed at the Kabul National Museum in Kabul. About 70 % of the museum's 100,000-piece collection was looted by mujaheddin fighters during the civil war of the 1990s and exhibits were damaged by rocket fire. The Taliban, who in 2001 destroyed the giant carved Buddhas in Bamiyan, central Afghanistan, also smashed the museum's pre-Islamic Buddha figures, deeming them un-Islamic. AFP Photo / Aref Karimi
4 / 8
Updated on May 28, 2012 08:08 PM IST
A statue is displayed at the Kabul National Museum in Kabul. About 70 % of the museum's 100,000-piece collection was looted by mujaheddin fighters during the civil war of the 1990s and exhibits were damaged by rocket fire. The Taliban, who in 2001 destroyed the giant carved Buddhas in Bamiyan, central Afghanistan, also smashed the museum's pre-Islamic Buddha figures, deeming them un-Islamic. AFP Photo / Aref Karimi
5 / 8
Updated on May 28, 2012 08:08 PM IST
Statues are displayed at the Kabul National Museum in Kabul. About 70 % of the museum's 100,000-piece collection was looted by mujaheddin fighters during the civil war of the 1990s and exhibits were damaged by rocket fire. The Taliban, who in 2001 destroyed the giant carved Buddhas in Bamiyan, central Afghanistan, also smashed the museum's pre-Islamic Buddha figures, deeming them un-Islamic. AFP Photo / Aref Karimi
6 / 8
Updated on May 28, 2012 08:08 PM IST
Statues are displayed at the Kabul National Museum in Kabul. About 70 % of the museum's 100,000-piece collection was looted by mujaheddin fighters during the civil war of the 1990s and exhibits were damaged by rocket fire. The Taliban, who in 2001 destroyed the giant carved Buddhas in Bamiyan, central Afghanistan, also smashed the museum's pre-Islamic Buddha figures, deeming them un-Islamic. AFP Photo / Aref Karimi
7 / 8
Updated on May 28, 2012 08:08 PM IST
Afghan visitors look at part of the historical collection at the Kabul National Museum in Kabul. About 70 % of the museum's 100,000-piece collection was looted by mujaheddin fighters during the civil war of the 1990s and exhibits were damaged by rocket fire. The Taliban, who in 2001 destroyed the giant carved Buddhas in Bamiyan, central Afghanistan, also smashed the museum's pre-Islamic Buddha figures, deeming them un-Islamic. AFP PHOTO / Aref Karimi
8 / 8
Updated on May 28, 2012 08:08 PM IST