The post The 10 Best Places to Visit in Afghanistan as a Tourist ... Bamiyan offers a serene atmosphere and an opportunity to reflect on the country’s Buddhist history, similar to Balkh, ...

“Ways of Seeing” currently focuses on four separate historical sites across Afghanistan: the Green Mosque in Balkh, a Buddhist dome south of Kabul known as the Parwan Stupa, the 15th century ...

image: A digital rendering of the Green Mosque in Balkh, Afghanistan, a 16th Century building. MIT’s “Ways of Seeing” project, directed by Fotini Christia, a professor, is a historic ...

Born in Balkh, he spent time in his 20s as a volunteer surveying archaeological sites in northern Afghanistan, including some of those the researchers say have been bulldozed. He was shocked to ...

More than 37 archaeological sites in Afghanistan have been destroyed and targeted with “systematic looting” under the Taliban-run government, according to researchers at the University of Chicago.