Gold boot buckle with turquoise inlay
Photograph © Musée Guimet/Thierry Ollivier
Washington, D.C.
May 25 to September 7, 2008
San Francisco, California
October 24, 2008, to January 25, 2009
Houston, Texas
March 1 to May 17, 2009
New York, New York
June 23 to September 20, 2009
The Afghan Children's Fund helps build schools for children in Afghanistan.
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An interactive timeline of the hidden treasures from the National Gallery of Art.
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Read about the life of the young Afghan refugee with the haunting eyes.
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You may be surprised by these latest scenes in Afghanistan.
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Ancient trade routes gave Afghanistan its ethnic and cultural diversity.
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The Songbook Project produces CDs of Afghan children's songs and lyrics in four languages.
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Amid war, an American journalist and her translator forge a friendship.
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A global debate is raging over who owns history's ancient artifacts.
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Afghan oil-based cave paintings predate Europe's by a hundred years.
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Afghanistan map and accompanying multilingual activities.
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Exhibition open from October 23, 2009, to March 28, 2010, in Gatineau-Ottawa, Canada.
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See the stories of heroism and bravery that saved ancient treasures in war-torn Afghanistan.
Follow a harrowing journey into war-torn Afghanistan and the lives of its people struggling against the Taliban.
This dual-sided map shows the borders, history, landscape, and peoples of Afghanistan.