Najibullah felt that the National Museum of Afghanistan was no longer safe for the Bactrian gold. A select team moved the treasure to a secure hiding place, its members swearing never to reveal ...

JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- Afghan security forces have foiled an attempt to smuggle 136 pieces of ancient coins to Pakistan in eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, a local ...

The Avukana Buddha statue and inset, the Bamiyan Buddha statue Bactrian images of the Buddha in the Bamiyan region in Afghanistan Prof. Perera traces may have been a veritable source of inspiration to ...

Dozens of archaeological sites in Afghanistan have been bulldozed to ... Alexander the Great had conquered the region and married a Bactrian woman named Roxana, after defeating the Achaemenid ...

As the Afghan government and parliament battle over a budget, some aired concerns that Afghanistan’s greatest treasure trove would be looted.

An interesting discovery was recently made in Central Asia in Tajikistan containing Greek inscriptions on a rock.

The coins, which date back to Greco-Bactrian and Kushan eras, were seized at Torkham border crossing point between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Provincial Director for Information and Culture Qurishi ...