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...Amsterdam exhibition presents 250 objects from four archaeological sites - Tepe Fullol, Ai Khanum, Tillya-tepe, and Begram - dating back as far as 4,000 years ago. It includes gold and silver vases from the Bactrian Bronze Age; a Greek limestone pillar and sundials from the 2nd century BC; Indian-related ivory figures and furniture from the 1st century AD; and a spectacular gold collection from Tillya-Tepe that includes bracelets, hearts, a crown, and even a pair of golden shoe soles meant to convey an aristocrat's disinclination for walking...
...foreign archaeological expeditions. One of the most important of the latter was the Délégation Archéologique Française en Afghanistan, which was invited there in 1922 by the then King and which excavated near Kabul what has become known as the treasure of Begram. Among its finds was a trunk covered in carved ivory. Photos of it in the Guimet Museum show reliefs of naked, large-breasted women. Their beauty must have blurred the aim of the Taliban soldiers who smashed the trunk when they emptied the Kabul museum because they left several fine...
Many of these objects lay hidden in sealed chambers from the 3rd century until 1937 when French archaeologists excavated the crumbling city of Begram near the Hindu Kush, the mighty massif that barricades Afghanistan to the northeast. Roman glassware, Chinese lacquer work and Indian ivories were found together, revealing that the East and West were closer together in 300 B.C. than in the days of Marco Polo, 15 centuries later...