The transfer of these artifacts to the National Museum highlights ongoing concerns about the security and preservation of Afghanistan's cultural heritage. The rapid pace of excavation and mining ...

The physical facility — known as the Afghanistan Memory Home Museum — no longer exists. Because the Taliban had threatened the museum's organizers, they decided to close when the Taliban ...

I don’t know what the Taliban did with them.” Artists in Afghanistan faced difficulties producing art even outside of the previous Taliban control, but the regime’s return made the risks ...

The ancient Near East, a region extending from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea to present-day Afghanistan, was home to several ... of sophistication unknown elsewhere at the time. Few ...