LIC AAO Model Paper 8

The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th-century monumental statues of standing Buddha carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, 230 km northwest of Kabul at an' altitude of 2,500 meters. Built in the 6th century A.D, they were destroyed in March 2001 by the Taliban