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AfghanCD.com (http://www.afghancd.com/)
The ultimate source of Afghan music and video for customers in the United States. For years, AfghanCD has been the main outfit for the digitization and reproduction of classic and current Afghan music. Based in the United States, it is a great source for locating hard to find Afghan music.

Afghan Cultural Heritage (http://www.unesco.org/opi2/afghan-crisis/)
A photographic online image archive of antiquities covering various periods of Afghan history.

Afghanistan@Culture (http://www.afghan-network.net/Culture/)
Includes links to cities and historic sites as well as cultural and historical resources on Afghanistan.

Afghanistan 1969-1974 (http://www.thewalt.de/afghanistan/index_e.html)
Photographs of Afghanistan from the years 1969, 1970, and 1974 and the treasures collected in the museum in Kabul, Afghanistan. In English and German.

Afghanistan Online. Kabul Museum (http://www.afghan-web.com/kabul-museum/)
A collection of artifacts from the Kabul Museum.

American Institute of Afghanistan Studies (AIAS) (http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/aias/index.html)
AIAS, a private, nonprofit organization, was founded in 2003 to support research on all aspects of Afghanistan’s history and culture and to promote scholarly ties between Afghanistan and the U.S.
Part of the John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University.

A. Raffaele Ciriello’s Photographs on Afghanistan (http://www.afghan-web.com/ciriello/)
Compilation of photographs from Afghanistan.

Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Languages of Afghanistan (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Afghanistan)
Provides information on known living languages spoken in Afghanistan and their populations.

Lost and Stolen Images: Afghanistan (http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/loststolen/lsafgh.html)
Bamiyan Web site is part of a larger NEH project supporting the "Cataloging and Digitization of Photographic Materials Related to Buddhist Art" in the Huntington Archive, Ohio State University.

Luke Powell. (http://www.lukepowell.com/)
Compilation of photographs from Afghanistan.

National Geographic. Understanding Afghanistan: Land in Crisis (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/landincrisis/)
National Geographic archive on Afghanistan related materials.

Open Directory Project. Society: Religion and Spirituality: Islam (http://dmoz.org/Society/Religion%5Fand%5FSpirituality/Islam/Quran/)
Links to various aspects of Islam as practiced around the globe, as well as sites which contain the complete Arabic and English texts of the Koran.

Payvand. The Society of Farsi, Dari and Tajiki Speakers (http://www.payvand.org.uk)
Payvand is an international, nongovernmental organization seeking to foster shared cultural, historic, and linguistic ties among Persian (Farsi, Dari, and Tajiki) speaking people of the world.

Requiem for Bamiyan (http://www.comune.pisa.it/gr-archeologico/bamiyan/index.html)
Web pages seek to share the knowledge and remembrance of the destroyed archaeological site of Bamiyan. In English and Italian.

World Afghan Jirgah. Afghan Culture (http://www.afghanology.com/culture.htm)
Links to various sites on Afghan culture.

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