Though the National Museum of Afghanistan is nowhere near running at full capacity and still hasn’t recovered many of the artifacts lost from its collections in the upheaval of the past decade, a ...

At first, it was a small museum in a nondescript office building in Kabul, with a seemingly mundane collection — like a 14-year-old's schoolbooks and black sandals. The teenager had died in Kabul in a ...

This collection consists of 22 oral histories documenting the history of the National Museum of Afghanistan during the career of Mr. Omara Khan Masoudi, director of the museum from 2001 to 2015. These ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Right down to the power cuts that frequently plunge its artifacts into shadow, the National Museum of Afghanistan is a symbol of the country’s decades of hardships. Its ...

When the Taliban returned to power last year, Afghanistan's National Museum went dark. Cultural heritage advocates around the world worried history might repeat itself - that the group would smash ...

The gallery about Afghanistan and Iraq opened on Oct. 6. Marine Corps Heritage Foundation photo by Stephanie Grooms. The effluvium hits you as soon as you enter the exhibit, which recreates the sights ...