Site Represents a site. Prim Media 794 Contact at316@st-andrews.ac.uk Institutional nature Museum, Ecomuseum, Extended Museum, Territorial Museum, Cultural Center, Memory House, e-Museum, etc Archaeological Place The town or city RRJG+RPC, Bamyan, Afghanistan Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Buddhas of Bamiyan Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived wordlheritage2022 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource at316 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 482 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,34.8321,67.8268; Description An account of the resource The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two statues that were carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley which is in central Afghanistan. The two buddhas are referred to as the Western and Eastern Buddha, the image pictured is the Western Buddha. Through carbon dating, they were found to have been built around 618 AD and 570 AD respectively. The site is surrounded with caves and surfaces covered with paintings that were said to be a combination of Buddhist and Gupta art from India. Unfortunately, in 2001, the Taliban had ordered for the statues to be destroyed, which caused a wave of protest and condemnation worldwide. For one day in 2015, 3D laser light projection technology was used to fill the empty cavities of the statues. Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). 02/05/2022 Extent The size or duration of the resource. cm x cm x cm Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 05/02/2022 07:11:33 pm Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. Buddhas of Bamiyan Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT