Ongoing efforts to rescue the collections of Afghanistan's National Museum.

Afghanistan 1969-1974 Museum Kabul 1 Museum Kabul 2 New (2 Apr 2002) Museum Kabul 3 Hadda Tepe Shotur 1 Hadda Tepe Shotur 2 Tepe Shotur 3 New (6.4.2002) Nangarhar: Darunta, Tepe Shotur 4 Bamiyan 1 Ghandak, Stupa Mori, Museum Ghazni, Qarez-i Mir Bamiyan, Shewaki Surkh Kotal Minar-e Chakri Haibak & Bamiyan Landscape &c Minar-i Jam Doab, Surkh Kotal, Balkh, Mazar-i Sharif, Herat, Bost Kabul 1969 ...

The Bamian valley, Afghanistan, showing the ancient caves of the Kushan Dynasty, the main town, located in central Afghanistan. It lies northwest of Kabul, the nation's capital, in the Bamian valley at an elevation of 2, 590 meters. The tourist traffic has prompted the building of a tourist centre and a government hotel in the town. Population (1988 est.) 8, 700. Bamian is first mentioned in 5th ...

ON Monday March 12, 2001, the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura said in a statement released at the UN cultural organization's Paris headquarters that the UN Envoy to Afghanistan has confirmed that the ancient Buddha statues at Bamiyan have been destroyed by the ruling Taliban militia. I was distressed to learn from my special envoy, Pierre Lafrance, that the destruction of the ...

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