The UNESCO emergency fund for Afghan culture. With image gallery and video.

Describes how antiquities are being smuggled from Afghanistan by the truck load, with huge quantities of objects making their way to Britain.

A collection of photographs by Dr. Volker Thewalt of Kabul Museum exhibits, Bamiyan, and other important sites in Afghanistan.

A lecture presented by Nadia Tarzi on behalf of Dr. Zemaryalai Tarzi covers Afghanistan's archaeology and history. Some masterpieces are also shown.

Report on villagers in Afghanistan uncovering a lost Buddhist city thought to date back to the 2nd Century.

Describes two great statues of Buddha in the Bamiyan Valley northwest of Kabul date from the Kushan Dynasty, in the 3rd century.

Report on a legendary store of 2,000-year old Afghan treasure, including gold and ancient manuscripts, found intact.

An article reporting the acquisition of the 2000 year old Kushan Rabotak Stone. Includes statements of tolerance for archaeological remains by the Taliban.

Conservation experts meeting in Kabul to rescue Afghan cultural heritage decide Kabul Museum should be restored before the giant statues.

Article on plans to preserve the remains of the great Buddhas of Bamiyan, destroyed by the Afghan Taleban in 2001.

Information on the debate of ownership of Buddhist manuscripts from Afghanistan presently held in the private Schøyen Collection in Norway.

Investigates a case of possible corruption in the arrest and immediate release of several thieves intent on stealing archaeological relics.

French archaeologists state they are a step closer to solving the mystery of Afghanistan's legendary lost third Buddha of Bamiyan.

A short description of Gandaharan art, exploring Gandhara's role in the evolution of the Buddha image.

Report on Italian engineers completing work to prevent the collapse of the cliff niches which house the remaining fragments of Afghanistan's ancient Bamiyan Buddhas, which were destroyed by the Taliban.

Article on a stone inscription in Sanskrit found in Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan which gives insight into the reign of the Hindu Shahi ruler `Veka' in the 10th Century.

Describes how beneath a series of mounds lie clues to a civilization that flourished long before Islam entered Afghanistan.

Japanese experts have found a number of Buddhist scripture fragments dating from the 7th century in central Afghanistan caves, the first to be discovered in nearly a century.

Japanese archaeologists plan to excavate a site in central Afghanistan that may have been an important center of Buddhism.

Some images of pre-islamic pieces of the Kabul Museum prior to its destruction.

A report that more and more impoverished villagers are digging up Afghan treasures in illegal excavations to earn income. From the Institute for War and Peace.

An article by the Archaeological Institute of America detailing the ongoing efforts to rescue the collections of Afghanistan's National Museum.

A history of the building and destruction of Afghanistan's archaeological treasures as seen through the life of archaeologist Dr. Chaibai Mustamandy.

Investigates how scientists in Zurich have prepared a three-dimensional blueprint for reconstructing the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan.

Illustrated report on the destruction by the ruling Taliban militia of the ancient Buddha statues at Bamiyan. History of the statues, UN and Buddhist protest.

An online version of an exhibition at the Courtauld Institute of Art of photographs taken in 1934 by Robert Byron of the colossal Buddhas at Bamiyan. Includes history of the huge Buddhist monastery.

Museum curators risk their lives to protect a 2nd century AD stone wine bowl carved with Bacchanalian scenes of naked women and satyrs dancing and feasting.

Paper presented at the AIA conference by Afghanistan's National Institute of Archaeology on the impact of war upon Afghanistan's cultural heritage.

A news report documenting the pillaging of ancient sites in remote Afghan villages and the multi-million dollar smuggling industry that sends ancient artifacts abroad. From the British Institute for War & Peace Reporting.