"Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Mes Aynak - Recent Discoveries Along the Silk Road' at National Musuem of Afghanistan, Kabul, May 2011" -- colophon ...

The National Museum of Afghanistan / Omara Khan Massoudi -- Saving Afghanistan's heritage / Carla Grissmann and Fredrik Hiebert -- The treasure of Tepe Fullol / Jean-François Jarrige. Tepe Fullol ...

Dozens of countries scrambled to evacuate their citizens from the country. LONDON -- At one minute before midnight local time on Aug. 31, the last U.S. servicemember was withdrawn from Afghanistan. It ...

A police car patrols in the courtyard of the closed Louvre museum after a robbery Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025 in Paris.

Police inspected a crane outside the Louvre in Paris, believed to have been used in the robbery of the museum early on Sunday ...

On August 31, a 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan, causing over 2,000 deaths, leaving thousands more injured across four provinces, and severely damaging homes and health ...

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Afghanistan late Sunday night, devastating entire villages. Thousands are believed to have been killed or injured with hundreds still feared trapped under the ...

Two powerful aftershocks struck eastern Afghanistan 12 hours apart, triggering fears of more deaths and destruction on Friday in a region where earthquakes have killed about 2,200 people as rescuers ...