This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... a year before the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, Russian archaeologist Viktor Ivanovich ...

This story appears in the September 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine ... The excavation is by far the most ambitious in Afghanistan’s history. But the security wasn’t put in place ...

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Afghanistan is a place, not a war. Taliban suicide bombings may dominate the news, but the sprawling Central Asian ...

This story appears in the February 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... And then his people—the Kyrgyz nomads of remote Afghanistan—might have a legitimate chance to thrive.

Twenty-five years ago an Afghan girl with green eyes haunted the cover of National Geographic. She became the iconic image of ... Shkola is studying Islamic history and law. She intends to become ...

So far Qasaba’s comfortable new apartment blocks on the edge of Afghanistan’s capital ... story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. On Fridays residents of ...

This story appears in the February 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Actual cultivation of poppy shows up in Afghanistan's recorded history about 300 years ago.

A Brief History of Women's Rights In Afghanistan Think of women in Afghanistan now, and you'll probably recall pictures in the media of women being forced to wear full-body burqas, perhaps the famous ...

As he retraces our ancestors’ global migration on foot, the author sees Afghanistan's peaceful ... appears in the September 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the Wakhan corridor ...