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Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
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	File Name: 13024.jpg 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 Order this image
	File Name: p080_7704.jpg Corinthian capital. Aï Khanum, palace main courtyard, 1970. Photo © Musée Guimet/DAFA Order this image
	File Name: p081_guimet021.jpg Moving a column capital. Aï Khanum, southern portico, palace main courtyard. Photo © Musée Guimet/DAFA Order this image
	File Name: p088_12753.jpg Aï Khanum, palace, reception rooms. Photo © Musée Guimet/DAFA Order this image
	File Name: afghan_gold08.jpg Archaeologist Viktor Sarianidi (left) and Terkesh Khodzhanyanov inspecting gold objects excavated from Tillya Tepe, Tomb IV, 1978 Photograph courtesy of Viktor Sarianidi Order this image
	File Name: p150_V_02.jpg Begram, 1939, excavations of Room 13. Photo © Musée Guimet/DAFA Order this image
	File Name: afghan_gold27.jpg Excavations from Tillya Tepe, Tomb IV Second quarter of the 1st century AD An Afghan archaeologist carefully uncovers the golden dagger from Tomb IV, 1978. Photograph courtesy Viktor Sarianidi Order this image
	File Name: afghan_gold28.jpg Excavations at Tillya Tepe 1978 by Russian archaeologist Viktor Sarianidi Six golden burials from the second quarter of the 1st century AD were found amongst the ruins of an older Bronze Age fortress Photograph courtesy Viktor Sarianidi Order this image
	File Name: 119.jpg Joseph Hackin, 1931. Photo © Musée Guimet. Order this image
	File Name: IV_093.jpg Begram, 1939, removal of the ivories from Room 13. Photo © Musée Guimet Order this image
	File Name: afghan_gold64.jpg Kabul, view of the citadel, Charles Masson, 1842. © Musée Guimet Order this image
	File Name: afghan_gold70.jpg Images from explorer Jules Barthoux’s mission report to Aï Khanum, "Travels in Turkestan and Badakshan," 1926. © Musée Guimet Order this image
	File Name: afghan_gold76.jpg Architectural rendering of the excavations at Begram. © Musée Guimet/Pierre Hamelin. Order this image
	File Name: afghan_gold78.jpg Aï Khanum, 2004. Since the 1980s, it has become impossible to continue excavating at Aï Khanum. Civil war raged, and the location of the site, at the confluence of two major rivers, once again became a strategic place as a base for military operations. This photo shows the result of looting of the ancient city: Soldiers systematically pockmarked the site searching for antiquities. The remaining DAFA excavations are visible only in the distance.Today, site guards protect the site, but the looting has caused extensive damage. © DAFA. Order this image
	File Name: afghan_gold79.jpg Balkh. The massive walls of this ancient city are built in an architectural tradition going back to the Bronze Age. © DAFA/David Jurie Order this image
	File Name: afghanistan.jpg A farmer overlooks his terraced wheat fields descending to the Kunar. Photo by Frank & Helen Schreider ©2008 National Geographic Order this image
	File Name: balkh.jpg 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. Order this image
	File Name: kabul_banner.jpg National Museum, Kabul, 2002. Photo © Pierre Cambon. Order this image
	File Name: afghan_gold09.jpg 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. Order this image
	File Name: opening_vault.jpg 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. Order this image
	File Name: standing_buddha.jpg Terracotta Buddha statue from the site of Hadda. The statue was photographed at the moment of unwrapping in the presidential palace, Kabul, 2004. Photo © Fredrik Hiebert, National Geographic Society. Order this image