A knife handle embossed with an image of a Siberian bear, for instance, and a diadem (opposite) festooned with gilded flowers similar to ones found in Korea both indicate far-flung stylistic ...

The Taliban ministry of information and culture has said they have begun efforts to track and locate the Bactrian treasure, also known as Bactrian Gold, discovered four decades ago in the Tela Tapa ...

The Cybele Plaque, among the Bactrian treasure on display at the presidential palace in Kabul (AFP) More than two decades of war and conflict in Afghanistan had a catastrophic effect on the country's ...

A gold belt in 25 to 50 from Afghanistan is showcased in Hong Kong in 2019. The Bactrian Treasure, composed of 21,145 pieces of gold, is recognized as one of the biggest gold collections in the world.

IIt’s like a scene right out of an Indiana Jones’ film: a dozen or so men packed away precious 2,000-year-old gold ornaments and jewellery in toilet paper, sealed them in plastic bags, labelled them ...

The lumbering and stubborn Bactrian camel might not be an obvious contender in a polo match, but a Mongolian initiative to save the two-humped beasts is taking a traditional sport of the steppes and ...