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Leith

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1. I agree

Reply to cab67 (Original post)

Wed Jul 28, 2021, 04:38 PM

Jul 2021

The Buddhas of Bamiyan would have been far better off being shipped to Japan, India, or other countries who were interested in preserving them.

The Taliban destroyed many of them in 2001.

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