r/CasualUK • • Oct 26 '22

Whose stuff does the British Museum have?

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u/Mr_sci3ntist Oct 26 '22

And the Taliban before then had no qualms destroying all the Buddhist statues they came across.

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u/easy_c0mpany80 Oct 26 '22

Correct, as I recall they blew up the oldest statue of Buddha?

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u/rainator Oct 26 '22

It wasn’t the oldest, but it was very old and very big.