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 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 ...

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

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 ...

The first attempt was the carving of the Avukana Buddha Image in the ancient Rajarata. The Avukana Buddha statue and inset, the Bamiyan Buddha statue Bactrian images of the Buddha in the Bamiyan ...

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