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🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Great Mosque of Herat
The Great Mosque of Herat (Dari: مسجد جامع هرات, Masjid-i Jāmi’i Hirāt), is a Sunni Friday mosque, located in the city of Herat, in the Herat Province of north-western Afghanistan.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Abdul Rahman Mosque
The Abdul Rahman Mosque (Pashto: د عبدالرحمان جومات; Dari: مسجد عبدالرحمان), also known as the Grand Mosque of Kabul, is a Sunni Congregational mosque, located in the central commercial area of Deh…
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Ancient city
Begram Bagram Kushan City
Greco-Bactrian 2nd c BCE → Kushan 1st–3rd c CE → Sassanid sack 245 CE · Greco-Bactrian → Kushan (Kapisa capital) — Gandhara-Silk Road
Begram Bagram Kushan City — ancient Kapisa (Kapisha), summer capital of Kushan Empire (1st–3rd c CE) at Panjshir–Ghorband confluence 50 km NE Kabul, excavated 1923–40 by J. Hackin and R.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Shotorak
Kushan 2nd–7th c CE (Kapisa Buddhist) · Kushan Gandhara Kapisa Buddhist
Shotorak — Kushan Buddhist monastery (2nd c CE–7th c CE) 1.5 km SE Begram (Kapisa) at Panjshir mouth, excavated 1936–39 Hackin and 2020s DAA.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Buried city
Balkh — Buried Shrine North (Bactra, Afghanistan)
Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Balkh — Buried Shrine North (Bactra, Afghanistan) in Balkh, Balkh, Afghanistan is a Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) buried city attributed to Bronz…
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Gawhar Shad Mausoleum
The Gawhar Shad Mausoleum, also known as the Tomb of Baysunghur, is a former Islamic burial structure located in what is now Herat, Afghanistan.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Fondukistan Monastery — Bamyan–Ghorband Pass
Hephthalite–Hindu Shahi (600–700 CE) · Buddhist Fondukistan (Ghorband)
Fondukistan Monastery — Bamyan–Ghorband Pass in Parwan Province, Afghanistan is a Hephthalite–Hindu Shahi (600–700 CE) temple-complex attributed to Buddhist Fondukistan (Ghorband).
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Archaeological wonder
Darra-e Kur
Darra-e Kūr or Bābā Darwīsh, is an archaeological site in Badakhshan province in Afghanistan.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Fortress
Shahr-i Zohak — Bamiyan Fortress Extension
Hephthalite to Ghaznavid (500–1000 CE) · Bamyan fortress town (Hephthalite)
Shahr-i Zohak — Bamiyan Fortress Extension in Bamyan Province, Afghanistan is a Hephthalite to Ghaznavid (500–1000 CE) fortress attributed to Bamyan fortress town (Hephthalite).
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Tell
Mundigak — Kandahar Bronze Age Mound
Chalcolithic–Bronze Age (4000–2000 BCE) Mundigak · Mundigak–Helmand
Mundigak — Kandahar Bronze Age Mound in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan is a Chalcolithic–Bronze Age (4000–2000 BCE) Mundigak tell attributed to Mundigak–Helmand.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Archaeological wonder
Aq Kupruk
Aq Kupruk is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Archaeological wonder
Ahin Posh
Ahan Posh or Ahan Posh Tape (Persian: آهن پوش, romanized: âhan puš, lit. 'iron-covered (place)') is an ancient Buddhist stupa and monastery complex in the vicinity of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, dated to…
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Buddhas of Bamiyan
The Buddhas of Bamiyan (Pashto: د باميانو بودايي پژۍ, Dari: تندیسهای بودا در بامیان) were two monumental Buddhist reliefs in the Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan, carved possibly around the 6th-century.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Fondukistan
Turk Shahi 699–752 CE → Umayyad–Ghaznavid 752 CE–1000 · Late Gandharan–Turk Shahi Buddhist (Kabul school post-Gandhara)
Ghorband conical-hill fortress monastery (699–752 CE) — earliest Turk Shahi polychrome stucco linking Bamyan to Kashmir after Arabs.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Archaeological wonder
Alexandria in the Caucasus
Hellenistic period
Alexandria in the Caucasus (Ancient Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια Alexándreia; medieval Kapisa, modern Bagram) was a colony of Alexander the Great.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Hadda
Indo-Greek 2 c. BCE → Kushan 1–4 c. → Hepthalite 5–6 c. → Turk Shahis 7–8 c. · Gandharan Greco-Buddhist (Hadda stucco school)
Greco-Buddhist plain city (2 c. BCE–8 c. CE) at Hadda south of Jalalabad — 20 stupas with bearded stucco Buddhas and Bimaran gold casket.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Ancient city
Begram
Hellenistic 330 BCE → Mauryan 305–180 BCE → Indo-Greek 180–50 BCE → Kushan 50–350 CE · Hellenistic → Indo-Greek–Kushan–Roman Silk Road
Kushan Kapisa capital at Begram (600 BCE–400 CE) — 30 ha Alexandretta with Begram Treasure of 200 Roman glass ivories.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Tepe Sardar (Ghazni Tepe Sardar)
Kushan 3rd c CE → Hepthalite 6th–7th c → Early Islamic 8th c · Kushan–Hepthalite Buddhist (Ghazni Zabul)
Tepe Sardar — Kushan–Hepthalite Buddhist monastic complex (3rd c CE–8th c CE) 3 km SE Ghazni, excavated 1956–79 IsMEO (Taddei, Verardi).
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Buried city
Ai Khanoum — Buried Palace North (Kunduz, Afghanistan)
Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Ai Khanoum — Buried Palace North (Kunduz, Afghanistan) in Takhar, Ai Khanoum, Afghanistan is a Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) buried city attribut…
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Haji Piyada Mosque
The Haji Piyada Mosque (Dari: مسجد حاجى پياده, lit. 'Mosque of the walking pilgrim') or Noh Gonbad Mosque (Dari: مسجد نُهگنبد, lit.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Ancient city
Shortugai
Mature Harappan (c.2500–1800 BCE) · Harappan colony (Indus diaspora on Oxus)
Northernmost Harappan colony on Oxus (Darqad) — lapis procurement hub 250 km from Badakhshan mines.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Rock art
Kandahar — Ashokan Greek-Aramaic Bilingual Inscription Extension
Mauryan (260 BCE) · Mauryan Greek–Aramaic
Kandahar — Ashokan Greek-Aramaic Bilingual Inscription Extension in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan is a Mauryan (260 BCE) rock_art attributed to Mauryan Greek–Aramaic.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Surkh Kotal — Baghlan Kushan Fire Temple
Kushan (130–230 CE Kanishka) · Kushan (Kanishka)
Surkh Kotal — Baghlan Kushan Fire Temple in Baghlan Province, Afghanistan is a Kushan (130–230 CE Kanishka) temple-complex attributed to Kushan (Kanishka).