The ancient Greek city of Ai-Khanoum in Afghanistan was discovered in the 1960s, but its demise has captivated archaeologists ...

Artifacts from Afghanistan's National Museum on display at Musée Guimet in Paris in 2006. These objects range in date from the 1st to 3rd centuries, and were recovered from Afghanistan's Tillya ...

This ancient settlement was home to a major Hellenistic city from the late 4th century BC to the mid-2nd century BC, whose original name rema At the confluence of the Kokcha River and the Amu Darya, ...

Cultural crossroads. Afghanistan is at the centre - the crossroads - of ancient civilisations stretching back at least 3,000 years. Its richness and strategic importance - located as it once was ...

Afghanistan restores 40 ancient monuments. 1w. Khabib Ghufran, a spokesman for the Afghan interim government, said the monuments were repaired in seven provinces.

Ben Herskowitz stood on a hill overlooking the ancient archaeological landscape of Bamiyan, nestled among the high mountains of the Hindu Kush. In the distance, he could see white snow-capped ...

Four deadly 6.3 magnitude earthquakes and dozens of powerful aftershocks struck Afghanistan’s western region between 7 and 15 October, devastating much of its rural areas. The territory around ...

1 An Afghan woman engages in Nuristani wood carving at a workshop in Herat on November 29. A group of four women has dedicated themselves to preserving an ancient tradition of wood carving found ...

Clandestine-like meetings . A deputy minister in the Taliban's government described having to travel more than 300 miles to the ancient city of Kandahar to meet with the country's leader.. Once ...

William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral and the former commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, wrote “Departing Afghanistan” in June 2021, prior to the evacuation in August.

When the Taliban came to power in 1996 the surviving cultural fragments of Afghanistan were protected - or at least tolerated. But by 2000 the approach of the Taliban ruling factions changed.