Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World.

This touring exhibition displays some of the most important archaeological discoveries from ancient Afghanistan. These treasures highlight finds from four sites in northern Afghanistan. They survived more than 30 years of war in Afghanistan because they were transferred in 1988 to the safe keeping of the then president Mohammad Najibullah and hidden by staff of the National Museum in Kabul in secret vaults in the Arg, the now presidential palace.

The motto of the National Museum of Kabul is "A nation stays alive when its culture stays alive."
This exhibition gives us the opportunity to see rare treasures of Afghanistan's cultural heritage and shows that Afghans are able to keep their culture alive.
The exhibition Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient world shows Afghanistan as a meeting place for civilisation. It shows that Afghanistan's cultural history is not exclusively founded on destruction and ending of empires, but on their development, exchange and reinvention. The objects displayed are the evidence of Afghanistan as nursery of culture, not a killing ground.
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Education

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• Afghanistan
• Crossroads
• Ancient
• World
• Afghan
• Treasure
• Culture
• Civilisation
• History
• Museum
• Empires
• Kabul
• Nati