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Thank you Viraj. Great to see them well-preserved in spite of so much destruction during these many centuries. Alas, some pieces of art were not so lucky, for example, Buddha statues in Afghanistan, probably you have heard:

The Buddha monuments in Bamiyan province had stood for 1,500 years but their destruction was ordered in 2001 - from here.

Yes, that was a devastating news for us. Still sad for what happened there.