Drawings and photographs from the first 'discovery' by Western travellers, 1830s to the end of Soviet Occupation, late 1980s

Drawing of the Buddhas of Bamiyan by Alexander Burnes, as he saw them during his visit in Bamiyan in 1832
Drawing of the Buddhas of Bamiyan by Alexander Burnes, as he saw them during his visit in Bamiyan in 1832 © Wikimedia
Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan From “Voyages de l’ embouchure de l’ Indus” Alexander Burnes 1832
Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan From “Voyages de l’ embouchure de l’ Indus” Alexander Burnes 1832
Vincent Eyre, Portraits of the Cabla Prisoners, Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Portraits of the cabul Prisoners, RCMS 101, 1842
Vincent Eyre, Portraits of the Cabla Prisoners, Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Portraits of the cabul Prisoners, RCMS 101, 1842
Vincent Eyre, Portraits of the Cabla Prisoners, Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Portraits of the cabul Prisoners, RCMS 101, 1842
Vincent Eyre, Portraits of the Cabla Prisoners, Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Portraits of the cabul Prisoners, RCMS 101, 1842
Vincent Eyre, Portraits of the Cabla Prisoners, Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Portraits of the cabul Prisoners, RCMS 101, 1842
Vincent Eyre, Portraits of the Cabla Prisoners, Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Portraits of the cabul Prisoners, RCMS 101, 1842
Talbot, M.G. and Maitland, P.J., The Rock-Cut Caves and Statues of Bamian, in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, XVII, 1886
Talbot, M.G. and Maitland, P.J., The Rock-Cut Caves and Statues of Bamian, in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, XVII, 1886
D’après un croquis du capitaine P. J. Maitland, 1886. André Godard, Yeda Godard et Joseph Hackin, Les Antiquités bouddhiques de Bâmiyân. MDAFA II. Paris et Bruxelles, Van Oest, 1928, 113 p., pl. VIII
D’après un croquis du capitaine P. J. Maitland, 1886. André Godard, Yeda Godard et Joseph Hackin, Les Antiquités bouddhiques de Bâmiyân. MDAFA II. Paris et Bruxelles, Van Oest, 1928, 113 p., pl. VIII
A man cycling past the cliffs of Bamian, Afghanistan in 2005.
A man cycling past the cliffs of Bamian, Afghanistan in 2005. © Stephen Dupont/Contact Press Images

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