Giant Buddha at Bamiyan Afghanistan, ca. 1938

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This is a clip from a 1938 color documentary from the ‘Thaw Expedition’ along the Silk Road, produced by the Esso corporation and distributed by Modern Talking Picture Service, showing the Great Buddha at Bamiyan. The Great Buddha was destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban.

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