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The enormous statues, the male Salsal ("light shines through the universe") and the (smaller) female Shamama ("Queen Mother"),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.christian-frei.info/dvd/christian_frei-booklet_en.pdf |title=booklet web E.indd |format=PDF |date= |accessdate=9 October 2013}}</ref> as they were called by the locals, did not fail to fire the imagination of Islamic writers in centuries past. The larger statue reappears as the malevolent giant Salsal in medieval Turkish tales.<ref>Laban Kaptein, ''Eindtijd en Antichrist'', p. 127. Leiden 1997. {{ISBN|90-73782-89-9}}</ref>
Afghan king [[Abdur Rahman Khan]] destroyed its face during a military campaign against the Shia [[Hazaras|Hazara]] rebellion in the area.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54808 |title=Ancient Buddhas Will Not Be Rebuilt – UNESCO |publisher=Ipsnews.net |date= |accessdate=9 October 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110913032140/http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54808 |archivedate=13 September 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> A Frenchman named Dureau had photographed it in 1847.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.idb.arch.ethz.ch/files/04_ag-remondino_zhang_photogr.record.pdf |title=Photogrammetric Reconstruction of the Great Buddha of Bamiyan |access-date=27 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150824114215/http://www.idb.arch.ethz.ch/files/04_ag-remondino_zhang_photogr.record.pdf |archive-date=24 August 2015 |dead-url=yes |df=dmy-all }}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2019|reason=The linked PDF neither contains such photography, nor does it contain the term frenchman, the name Dureau, or the year 1847.}}
====1998 to 2001, under the Taliban====
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