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April 14, 2004
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Bamian, Afghanistan
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1933
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Maynard Owen Williams
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“Passing Baluchi traders ignore Bamian’s Little Buddha: The ‘Little Buddha’ is so called because it is nearly 60 feet [18.3 meters] shorter than the ‘Great Buddha.’ Hundreds of shrines and monastic cells were carved in the conglomerate cliff, and for several centuries Bamian was a focus of cultural contacts reaching deep into China, India, and Persia.”
—From “Afghanistan Makes Haste Slowly,” December 1933, National Geographic magazine
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