Archaeological Sites in Afghanistan
City/town/settlement in Afghanistan (8)
Alexandria Arachosia - Old Kandahar
Alexandria Arachosia was a fortress-city founded by Alexander the Great around 330-329 BC on the site of an earlier Achaemenid fortress. It was one of over twenty cities…
Alexandria in the Caucasus
Alexandria in the Caucasus was a colony of Alexander the Great. It was one of many colonies designated with the name "Alexandria". He founded the colony at an important junction…
Alexandria Oxiana-Ai-Khanoum
Ai-Khanoum is the archaeological site of a Hellenistic city in Takhar Province, Afghanistan. It served as a major military and economic centre of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. The…
Dilberjin Tepe
Dilberjin Tepe is an ancient fortified town in northern Afghanistan, probably founded in the 5th century BC during the Achaemenid period and flourishing until the 6th century AD.…
Mundigak
Mundigak is a prehistoric archaeological site in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, representing a major center of the Helmand culture during the Bronze Age. Located approximately 55…
Nagara (Ancient city)
Nagara, also known as Dionysopolis, was an ancient city in what is now eastern Afghanistan, associated with the site of Nagara Ghundi about 4 km west of Jalalabad near the…
Said Qala Tepe
Said Qala Tepe is an archaeological site near Kandahar in Afghanistan. The tell is about 8 meters high and 200 by 200 meters in area. It has produced particularly strong evidence…
Yemshi Tepe
An ancient circular fortified city covering approximately 20 hectares, located 5 km northeast of Sheberghan in northern Afghanistan. Built during the Kushan Empire period (1st-3rd…
Monastery in Afghanistan (7)
Ahin Posh Tape
A Kushan-era Buddhist stupa and monastery near Jalalabad, Afghanistan, first excavated by William Simpson in 1879. The central relic deposit contained a golden Gandharan amulet…
Chakhil-i-Ghoundi Stupa
The Chakhil-i-Ghoundi Stupa, also code-named "Stupa C1", is a small limestone stupa from the Chakhil-i-Ghoundi monastery, at the archeological site of Hadda in eastern…
Hadda
Haḍḍa is a Greco-Buddhist archeological site located ten kilometers south of the city of Jalalabad. Some 23,000 Greco-Buddhist sculptures, both clay and plaster, were excavated in…
Mes Aynak
Mes Aynak is a major Buddhist settlement located 40 km southeast of Kabul in Logar Province, Afghanistan. The site features a vast complex of Buddhist monasteries, homes, over 400…
Takht-e Rostam
Takht-e Rostam is a Buddhist stupa and monastery complex carved from bedrock in northern Afghanistan. Located 2 km south of Haibak, the site features five chambers, two serving as…
Tapa Shotor
Tapa Shotor, also Tape Shotor or Tapa-e-shotor, was a large Sarvastivadin monastery near Hadda, Afghanistan, and is now an archaeological site. The first Buddhist period dates to…
Tepe Sardar
Tepe Sardar, also Tapa Sardar or Tepe-e-Sardar, is an ancient Buddhist monastery in Afghanistan. It is located near Ghazni, and it dominates the Dasht-i Manara plain. The site…
Temple complex in Afghanistan (2)
Guldarra Stupa
Located near the village of Guldara in Kabul Province, Afghanistan, the Guldara stupa sits atop a high hill at the end of the Valley of Guldara. The monument was established in…
Surkh Kotal
Surkh Kotal is a monumental Kushan-era archaeological site in Baghlan Province, Afghanistan. Excavated by Daniel Schlumberger (1952-1963), the site yielded inscriptions in Greek…
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