Monuments of Afghanistan

Book Description
Despite bearing witness to ancient and more recent battles the scarred landscape of Afghanistan is strewn with the monuments to illustrate this rich history: from the recently uncovered Bronze Age Oxus civilization at Dashli in the northern plains, the remains of the Greek civilization of Ai Khanum in the north-east and the spectacular twelfth-century minarets at Jam in the mountains of the west to the magnificent palatial complexes of the eleventh-century Sultans at Lashkar Bazar in the south and what remains of the fifth and seventh-century Buddhist world of Bamiyan in the Hindu Kush (notoriously destroyed by the Taliban in 2001). This book, therefore, fills the need for a general, accessible background to the history and cultural heritage of Afghanistan. It provides broad summaries of the history, architecture and archaeology, together with a gazetteer of the main monuments and archaeological sites. As well as maps and site plans it includes photographs of main monuments.


About the Author
Warwick Ball worked as an archaeologist in Afghanistan. His books include Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire, which won the James Henry Breasted Prize for History in 2000.



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Despite bearing witness to ancient and more recent battles the scarred landscape of Afghanistan is strewn with the monuments to illustrate this rich history: from the recently uncovered Bronze Age Oxus civilization at Dashli in the northern plains, the remains of the Greek civilization of Ai Khanum in the north-east and the spectacular twelfth-century minarets at Jam in the mountains of the west to the magnificent palatial complexes of the eleventh-century Sultans at Lashkar Bazar in the south and what remains of the fifth and seventh-century Buddhist world of Bamiyan in the Hindu Kush (notoriously destroyed by the Taliban in 2001). This book, therefore, fills the need for a general, accessible background to the history and cultural heritage of Afghanistan. It provides broad summaries of the history, architecture and archaeology, together with a gazetteer of the main monuments and archaeological sites. As well as maps and site plans it includes photographs of main monuments.


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