Archaeologists uncover a 2,500-year-old Iron Age site in Afghanistan, revealing stone structures, a drikning vessel and early ...

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MES AYNAK, Afghanistan - It was another day on the rocky hillside, as archaeologists and laborers dug out statues of Buddha and excavated a sprawling 2,600-year-old Buddhist monastery. A Chinese woman ...

CHESHM-E-SHAFA, Afghani-stan — Centuries-old shards of pottery mingle with spent ammunition on a wind-swept mountainside in northern Afghanistan, where French archaeologists believe they have found a ...

A 12th-century mosque and minarets from 1417 are visibly cracked, with ornate tiles falling to the ground in Herat, Afghanistan. The ancient monuments had been neglected even before Afghanistan's ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — A trove of ancient manuscripts in Hebrew characters rescued from caves in a Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan is providing the first physical evidence of a Jewish community ...

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