Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

As war raged across the jagged Afghan countryside, the staff of the Afghan National Museum spirited away, piece by piece, to hiding places all over the Kabul region, each time risking their lives, sworn to silence, it was a secret they kept until the fall of the Taliban--almost thirty years of deadly danger, courage, and fierce honor.

Edited by Fredrik Hiebert and Pierre Cambon

The National Museum of Afghanistan / Omara Khan Massoudi -- Saving Afghanistan's heritage / Carla Grissmann and Fredrik Hiebert -- The lost worlds of Afghanistan / Fredrik Hiebert -- The treasure of Tepe Fullol / Jean-François Jarrige ; Tepe Fullol catalog / Fredrik Hiebert -- The Greek colony at Aï Khanum and Hellenism in Central Asia ; Aï Khanum catalog / Paul Bernard -- Begram : at the heart of the Silk Roads / Sanjyot Mehendale ; Begram : Alexandria of the Caucasus, capital of the Kushan Empire / Pierre Cambon ; Begram catalog / Sanjyot Mehendale -- Ancient Bactria's golden hoard / Viktor Ivanovich Sarianidi ; Tillya Tepe, the hill of gold : a nomad necropolis ; Tillya Tepe catalog / Véronique Schiltz.

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