In 1978, a year before the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan ... revealed that the treasure was safe and had been hidden in a vault of the central bank. Carefully cataloged by the National ...

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Afghanistan is a place, not a war. Taliban suicide bombings may dominate the news, but the sprawling Central Asian ...

This story appears in the September 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine ... The excavation is by far the most ambitious in Afghanistan’s history. But the security wasn’t put in place ...

So far Qasaba’s comfortable new apartment blocks on the edge of Afghanistan’s capital ... story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. On Fridays residents of ...