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Press Room > Afghanistan Images

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  Male or female head (Aï Khanum, Temple with niches, Courtyard), 200–100 BCE
unfired clay
National Museum of Afghanistan
©Thierry Ollivier / Musée Guimet
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  Statuette of a woman standing on a makara, possibly a furniture ornament (Begram, Room 10), 1–200 CE
ivory
National Museum of Afghanistan
©Thierry Ollivier / Musée Guimet
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  Goblet depicting figures harvesting dates (Begram, Room 10), 1–200 CE
glass and paint
National Museum of Afghanistan
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  Pair of pendants depicting the "Dragon Master" (Tillya Tepe, Tomb II), 100 BCE–100 CE
gold, turquoise, garnet, lapis lazuli, carnelian, and pearl
National Museum of Afghanistan
©Thierry Ollivier / Musée Guimet
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  Crown (Tillya Tepe, Tomb VI), 100 BCE–100 CE
gold and imitation turquoise
National Museum of Afghanistan
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  Dagger with hilt depicting animals and a dancing bear (Tillya Tepe, Tomb IV)
100 BCE–100 CE
iron, gold, and turquoise
National Museum of Afghanistan
©Thierry Ollivier / Musée Guimet
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  Ornament for the neck of a robe (Tillya Tepe, Tomb V), 100 BCE–100 CE
gold, turquoise, garnet, and pyrite
National Museum of Afghanistan
©Thierry Ollivier / Musée Guimet
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  Ring depicting Athena (Tillya Tepe, Tomb II), 100 BCE–100 CE
yellow and white gold
National Museum of Afghanistan
©Thierry Ollivier / Musée Guimet
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  Headdress ornament in the form of a ram (Tillya Tepe, Tomb IV), 100 BCE–100 CE
gold
National Museum of Afghanistan
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  A pair of clasps. Cupids on dolphins (Tillya Tepe, Tomb III)
100 BCE–100 CE
Gold, turquoise, mother of pearl
National Museum of Afghanistan
©Thierry Ollivier / Musée Guimet
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  A farmer overlooks his terraced wheat fields descending to the Kunar.
Photo by Frank & Helen Schreider ©2008 National Geographic
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  Balkh, the major city of ancient Bactria, at the foot of the central highlands in northern Afghanistan, is said to have been home to legendary prophet Zoroaster, residing here centuries before the arrival of Alexander the Great. Photo © Kenneth Garrett, National Geographic Society.
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  Aï Khanum. The end of the royal Greek city of Aï Khanum (meaning "Lady Moon") came suddenly around 145 B.C. at the hands of nomads from the northeast, who set fire to the palace and robbed the treasury. Photo © Musée Guimet/DAFA
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  Fredrik Hiebert, National Geographic Archaeology Fellow and curator of "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul," and Carla Grissmann, a specialist of the collections in the museum, working with Afghan officials in 2003 to inventory artifacts discovered in 1978 and thought lost.
Photo © Kenneth Garrett, National Geographic Society.
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  Minister of Information and Culture Sayeed Makhdoom Raheen (center) turns to Viktor Sarianidi (left, front) as the inventory team opens the first safe of Bactrian gold in the presidential bank vault, Kabul, 2004. Photo © Kenneth Garrett, National Geographic Society.
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