Megalithic Portal: Latest from Afghanistan

Merv, Turkmenistan

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:57:53 GMT

]]>. The ancient city of Merv has its origin in the 3rd Millenium BCE. The oldest part of the settlement, called Erk-Kala, is an oval shaped rampart wich was around the oldest settlement.

Tillia tepe

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:32:27 GMT

. Tillia tepe is an archaeological site in northern Afghanistan near Sheberghan, surveyed in 1979 by a Soviet-Afghan mission of archaeologists led by Victor Sarianidi, a year before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. 20,000 gold ornaments and coins were found in six graves (five women and one man) with extremely rich jewelry, dated to around the 1st century BCE.

Buddhas of Bamiyan

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:38:11 GMT

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Mes Aynak

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:37:10 GMT

Mine in Afghanistan threatens ancient tomb complex, the excavators have unofficially been given three years but will this be honoured?. Last year the French archaeological mission, in cooperation with the Afghan National Institute of Archaeology, it began an excavation of an ancient Buddhist settlement at the Mes Aynak mine, which has the second-largest known unexploited copper deposits in the world. The team are racing to rescue as much as possible before the mining work begins.