From: "Mark" 


"Geo"  wrote in message news:444532ed{at}w3....
> "Phil Payne" 
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>> It did all right for 6,000 years before he turned up.
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> It's still there isn't it?

The Buddha statues didn't fare so well though, did they?
http://transcripts.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/03/12/afghan.buddha.02/

"Museums and governments around the world had hoped to save the two
Buddhas, the earliest of which is thought to have been carved into the
sandstone cliffs of Bamiyan in the third century A.D. At 53 meters (175
feet) and 36 meters (120 feet), the statues were the tallest standing
Buddhas in the world.

Demolition of the two towering images was nearly finished Monday, Taleban
Information Minister Qudratullah Jamal said.

"The destruction work is not as easy as people would think," he
said. "You can't knock down the statues by dynamite or shelling as
both of them have been carved in a cliff. They are firmly attached to the
mountain." "

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