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 ...

The mining contract, initially signed during Hamid Karzai's presidency in 2008, faced delays due to the presence of an ancient settlement ... and preservation of Afghanistan's cultural heritage.

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 ...

JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- Afghan security forces have foiled an attempt to smuggle 136 pieces of ancient coins to ... civilizations of the history in the southern Kandahar province.