The ancient Greek city of Ai-Khanoum in Afghanistan was discovered in the 1960s, but its demise has captivated archaeologists ...

Across the border in Afghanistan, the Taliban government has destroyed every Buddha it can get its hands on, images it considers idolatrous. Demoli ...

2004-06-27 04:00:00 PDT Kabul , Afghanistan-- Under the Russians it was barely glimpsed. The Afghan Communists allowed only peeks. Through the years of civil war and Taliban rule, its existence ...

HERAT, Afghanistan -- For 200 years, Ghulam Sakhi's family has been blowing glass in the ancient Afghan city of Herat. He creates azure, indigo and green goblets, cups and vases that have been ...

Centuries-old shards of pottery mingle with spent ammunition rounds on a wind-swept mountainside in northern Afghanistan where French archaeologists believe they have found a vast ancient city.

Afghanistan's ancient defense / Like generations past, Taliban fighters finding refuge underground By Carl Nolte , Chronicle Staff Writer Nov 7, 2001 U.S. Approach to Penetrating Caves.

Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World, British Museum, London WC1 (020 7323 8181) to 3 July. The exhibition is supported by Bank of America Merrill Lynch. More about ...

As major Afghan cities fall, the insurgents now oversee tens of thousands of artifacts and ancient sites. Taliban forces ransacked the National Museum of Afghanistan in early 2001, smashing images ...

The ancient treasure, which lay dormant for 2,000 years, now enters a new chapter in its life which, like Afghanistan, has been filled with such heartache and turmoil since 1978 when it was first ...

On the heights of the Kabul Gorge, they still find ancient belt buckles and corroded sword hilts. You can no longer read the insignia of the British regiments of the old East India Company but ...

Afghanistan's Jewish community numbered as many as 40,000 in the late 19th century, after Persian Jews fled forced conversion. By the mid-20th century, only about 5,000 remained, and most ...