Civil war has damaged a big portion of these treasures and more were stolen during the war. We spoke to Kabul university Professor Mr Mohammad Rasoul Bawari on the history of Afghanistan's ancient ...

The "Hill of Gold" contained 20,000 rare items including gold jewellery, an intricate crown and coins, dubbed the Lost Treasures of Afghanistan. "You can unearth layers of a civilisation in each ...

(When Afghanistan was under Taliban control ... hurrying to rescue its treasures before mining was due to begin. With mining delayed, a smaller crew works today in an area where insurgent ...

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 ...

and nearly three-quarters of its treasures were looted during the ensuing years. Many Afghans assumed that the Tillya Tepe treasure had shared the same fate, and that this part of Afghanistan’s ...

For us, and probably for many, Afghanistan has always been a constant presence on the news and a few mentions in a distantly-remembered history class. How misguided! Over the course of one ...