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Notre Dame evokes humanity's other losses in Mideast

Monday's blaze at Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral brings to mind other historic landmarks and treasures humanity has lost in recent years during civil wars in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Published 18.04.2019 16:24
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Buddhas of Bamyan, Kabul, Afghanistan Built in the sixth century in the Bamyan Valley in Hazarajat, central Afghanistan, 230 kilometers (140 miles) northwest of Kabul, two monumental statues of Gautama Buddha were destroyed in March 2001 by the Taliban.
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