Khabib Ghufran, a spokesman for the Afghan interim government, said the monuments were repaired in seven provinces. The ...

KABUL, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Forty historical monuments and facilities that were at risk of destruction have been restored in Afghanistan ... been formed to protect ancient artifacts and historical ...

The ancient Near East, a region extending from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea to present-day Afghanistan, was home to several of the world's oldest civilizations. Favored with an ...

This photo taken on March 25, 2025 shows a view of the Shewaki Stupa in the east edge of Kabul, capital of Afghanistan ... unit has been formed to protect ancient artifacts and historical sites.

The excavation is by far the most ambitious in Afghanistan’s history. But the security wasn’t put in place just to protect a few scientists and some local workers. Buried below the ancient ...

Book was launched at the Kolkata Centre for Creativity on the EM Bypass on March 21, courtesy AHAVA Communications and the ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History ... from all over the ancient world. In 1978, a year before the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, Russian ...

A few years ago, archaeologists stumbled upon something truly one-of-a-kind at the Shahr-i Sokhta (Iran) site: a board game.