World Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites ...

KABUL, July 9 (Xinhua) -- Police have taken into custody 11 people on charges of digging a historical site in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, Provincial Director for Information and Culture ...

When the Taliban returned to power, cultural heritage advocates worried history might repeat itself and the group would destroy objects it found offensive. The museum is open now but has few visitors.

We urge both UNHCR and individual governments that have ratified the 1951 Refugee Convention to acknowledge the inherent vulnerability of Afghan artists and cultural workers at risk under Taliban ...

In 1960, the last king of Afghanistan, Mohammed Zahir Shah, had a vision to turn the central Bamiyan Valley into a tourist destination. His plans included building a hotel in front of the two ...

The Taliban have backed an 18-month-long conservation project to safeguard the Afghan heritage site of Mes Aynak, a 2,000-year-old Buddhist city that is at risk of destruction from a long-delayed ...

The recent past has not been kind to Afghanistan's pre-Islamic heritage. Will history repeat itself under the new Taliban government? Just months before the Taliban was ousted from power in 2001 ...

GOWARJAN: In March 2001, the Taliban shocked the world by dynamiting the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. Two decades later, they are back in power and claim to be making strides to preserve Afghanistan ...

Afghanistan archaeological sites dating back to 1000 BC plundered under Taliban rule. ... The Unesco world heritage site of Afghan Buddhism was a holy site for Buddhists on the Silk Road route.

Afghan authorities have placed more than 6,700 relics dating from the Bronze Age to the Islamic Period in the National Museum of Afghanistan over the last year, adding to the country's heritage ...

Tawakul Ahmadyar, Chairman of the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment, expressed his satisfaction with the Afghan ...