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Historian Nancy Dupree co-authored A Guide to the Kabul Museum in 1964. In 1973, a Danish architect was hired to design a new building for the museum, but the plans were never carried out. [15] In 1989, the Bactrian Gold had been moved to an underground vault at the Central Bank of Afghanistan. [8] Inside the museum in 2008
4 Kabul. 5 Kandahar. ... Art Museum; Cultural; Historic Site; History (General) Military History; ... National Museum of Afghanistan; OMAR Mine Museum; Kandahar
The National Archives of Afghanistan (Dari: آرشیف ملی افغانستان; Pashto: د افغانستان ملي ارشیف) are located in a historical building in the southern area of Shahr-e Naw in Kabul, Afghanistan, near the Jamhuriat Hospital and Malalai High School. The archives were officially made in 1973.
Darul Aman Palace (Pashto: د دارالامان ماڼۍ; Dari: قصر دارالامان; 'Abode of Peace' or, in a double meaning, 'Abode of Aman[ullah]') [3] is a three-story palace located in Darulaman locality, about 16 km (9.9 miles) south-west of the center of Kabul, Afghanistan.
In 1919 it housed the National Museum of Afghanistan before the collection was moved elsewhere, and the palace became a military house under King Ghazi Amanullah Khan. After being abandoned by 1930, it was renovated and turned into a restaurant under King Zahir Shah in the 1960s. [3] [4] The palace survived the civil war of the 1990s.
The finds were divided, in accordance with the system of partage, between the Musée Guimet and the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul. After the Kabul Museum closed in 1978 the whereabouts of the ivories was uncertain, and many items were looted in the 1990s. [3]
Earlier today, Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery to honor 13 U.S. service members who lost their lives on Aug. 26, 2021, during the American withdrawal from Afghanistan. The former ...
Chaman-i Hazouri (Dari: چمن حضوری) [1] or Hazoori Chaman (Pashto: حضوري چمن) is a park in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan. [2] It is the site of the famous Chaman Hazouri hoard (or Kabul hoard) of ancient coins and jewellery dating back to the Achaemenid Empire (c.550–330 BCE), which is of key interest to the historians.