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	Kabul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kabul (Kâb'l, in Persian کابل) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan with a population variously estimated at 2 to 4 million.
		Kabul's population is predominantly Tajik, 57%, and the city is the biggest and the most important Tajik settlement in the world, while the Pashtuns, 25%, are the largest ethnic minority in the city.
		Kabul was captured by the Taliban in September, 1996, publicly lynching ex-president Najibullah, repressing the city's dangerously literate populace and effectively moving the capital to Kandahar.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/K/Kabul.htm (1352 words)

	India - News - Taliban To Open Museum Doors To Show Destruction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		KABUL - The bullet-scarred doors to the Kabul Museum are to be opened on Thursday for the first time since the reclusive leader of Afghanistan's hardline Taliban rulers ordered priceless pre-Islamic relics destroyed as offensive to Islam.
		The repository for thousands of artifacts that commemorate Afghanistan's 50,000-year history, the domed Mughal style building that is the Kabul Museum was badly damaged during a bitter four-year feud between rival Islamic groups who ruled the country until 1996 when the Taliban took control of most areas, including the capital.
		Historians and museum workers say the worst ravaging of the Kabul Museum was done between 1992 and 1996 by rival Islamic groups, who were at war in Kabul during deposed president Burhanuddin Rabbani's rule.
	www3.estart.com /india/news/talebandestruction.html (605 words)

	MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS CONFERENCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		KABUL, Afghanistan - Nural Hak can't forget the February day a year ago when the pickup trucks with the tinted windows braked in the dust outside the Kabul Museum and young men piled out carrying AK-47s.
		The museum was built in 1932 in a new cultural district near a former royal palace.
		Massoudi, the son of a farmer, is a historian trained at Kabul University who has worked for the museum for the past 23 years.
	www.pittstate.edu /isp/gobar/article.html (1441 words)

	Kabul Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kabul Museum is a museum in Kabul, Afghanistan.
		One of the effects of this unrest was the 1993 bombing of the museum, which caused extensive damage to the exhibits.
		When the Taliban came to power, they adopted a policy of suppression against the museum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kabul_Museum (150 words)

	Many residents of Kabul view the destruction of the Buddha statues as the final blow to their waning hopes for a better ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The bullet-scarred Kabul Museum is expected to be opened for the first time since the leader of Afghanistan's hard-line Taliban rulers called the country's priceless pre-Islamic relics offensive and ordered them destroyed.
		If it occurs as planned on today, the opening of the museum to journalists will be the first glimpse of the destruction of statues that had paid tribute to Afghanistan's pre-Islamic past since the Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar ordered their demolition last month.
		The repository for thousands of artifacts that commemorate Afghanistan's 50,000-year history, the Kabul Museum, a domed mughal-style building, was badly damaged during a bitter, four-year feud between rival Islamic groups who ruled the country until 1996, when the Taliban took control of most areas of the country, including the capital.
	www.islamfortoday.com /taleban4.htm (639 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| South Asia \| Fresh start for Kabul museum
		On Tuesday, in Kabul museum, government officials, workers, and supporters gathered for the opening of the newly renovated rooms, where work can now begin to reclaim some of what was lost due to the Taleban.
		She is one of a number of supporters of the museum who have pulled together donations from many countries to ensure it is rebuilt.
		But the museum's employees have already risked everything for the collection, and they are determined that everything possible must be done to save the figures that can be restored.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/2777437.stm (611 words)

	Museum Under Siege: Full Text
		The Kabul government also displayed it to the diplomatic corps toward the end of 1991, after which the gold was packed in boxes and placed in a vault of the National Bank inside the palace, where it is said to be today.
		Museum staff--civil servants in President Rabbani's government--were forbidden to visit the museum because it was in enemy territory.
		In Kabul the Commission for the Preservation of Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage was organized, consisting of Afghan members of the National Museum, the Institute of Archaeology, the Academy of Sciences, Kabul University, the Ministry of Information and Culture, HABITAT, and Afghan experts.
	www.archaeology.org /online/features/afghan (3520 words)

	1997 Pulitzer Prizes-INTERNATIONAL REPORTING, Works
		KABUL, Afghanistan -- On a recent visit to the ruins of the National Museum of Afghanistan, where he served as curator, Najibullah Popal turned momentarily to pause beside a gaping hole in the masonry.
		The museum's destruction, and the scattering of thousands of its most prized objects into international art markets, have been little more than a footnote to the larger human miseries of the Afghan conflict, which has killed an estimated 1.5 million people since the first shots were fired in 1978.
		A new civil war ensued, and the museum, in the heart of the strategic Darulaman district, was one of the early casualties.
	www.pulitzer.org /year/1997/international-reporting/works/9 (1403 words)

	Afgha.com - Kabul Museum being restored (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The war-ruined Kabul Museum's entire top floor is missing -- except for the windowless outer walls -- and the first floor is a wreck of tangled wires and bare light-bulbs hanging from the ceiling.
		Many of the museum's centuries old artifacts have been destroyed or stolen, and the only piece of art still visible is a large marble basin made in the southern city of Kandahar in the 15th century.
		The museum was wrecked during civil war in the 1990s, and rival Islamic groups -- some of whom are currently in power -- emptied it of most of its artifacts.
	www.afgha.com /?af=article&sid=30378 (309 words)

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		It is a painfully slow process, but a satisfying one for Sherazuddin, head of Kabul museum's restoration department, who was once forced to stand helplessly by as priceless artefacts were smashed by the hard line Islamic regime.
		Sherazuddin and his colleagues are relishing the chance to work on the museum's treasures, as they have had few opportunities to protect them since the fall of the Najibullah regime in 1992.
		Museum director Omar Khan Masoudi's own face lights up as he talks about how the museum - which dates back to 1919 - once held a collection of world importance numbering 100,000 pieces.
	www.iwpr.net /archive/arr/arr_200309_74_1_eng.txt (797 words)

	Mission to recover lost legacy in Kabul museum - World News - MSNBC.com
		The museum, once home to one of the world’s finest collections of treasures and artifacts from Central Asia, is a symbol of the ravages inflicted on Afghanistan in the past twenty years.
		The museum is in the heart of west Kabul, an area that was on the front line during Afghanistan’s civil war.
		The museum was bombed in 1993 destroying much of the building and a good part of the collection.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/5430398 (850 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Kabul museum opens to reveal rich history reduced to rubble
		The grey metal gate to storeroom four in the Kabul museum opened yesterday for the first time since the Taliban fled the city.
		Near a broken window lay a small pile of limestone rubble, all that remains of the museum's finest piece: a rare 2nd century statue of King Kanishka, the great Kushan warrior, famous patron of the arts and latterly a victim of Taliban iconoclasm.
		When the museum reopened yesterday for the first time since the fall of the Taliban, there were barely a dozen exhibits left on show.
	www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,608557,00.html (685 words)

	Kabul Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		ID information is taken from Art in Afghanistan: Objects from the Kabul Museum by Frances Mortimer Rice and Benjamin Rowland (Coral Gables, University of Miami Press, 1971).
		Recent Happenings at the Kabul Museum by Nancy Hatch Dupree, 1996.
		The Kabul Museum Moves to Kabul Hotel by Carla Grissmann, 1996.
	www.clt.astate.edu /wallen/digits/kabul.htm (302 words)

	CNN.com - Taleban opens Kabul Museum - March 23, 2001
		KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's Taleban rulers have opened the doors to the war-ravaged Kabul Museum for the first time since 1999.
		Thousands of smaller statues in the Kabul Museum and elsewhere were destroyed with pickaxes, hammers and artillery.
		The domed museum building was badly damaged during a bitter four-year feud between rival Islamic groups.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/03/22/afghanistan.museum.01 (501 words)

	GN Online: Taliban throw open Kabul museum
		Afghanistan's Taliban rulers threw open the doors to the National Museum in Kabul yesterday to prove they had carried out their vow to destroy all the statues that were once at the heart of the collection.
		The museum once held a priceless collection of coins, many dating from the kingdoms ruled by the successors of Alexander the Great – whose faces on coins would violate the Taliban edict.
		Most of the surviving treasures are not in the museum's cluttered basement, but the museum director would not say where they have been stored.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=12693 (650 words)

	"Lost" Treasures of Afghanistan Revealed in Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		During Afghanistan's civil war in the 1990s, the National Museum outside Kabul was literally on the front line, repeatedly attacked by rocket fire and looted by warlords.
		I looked at the eyes of the museum curators as they opened these boxes, that they hadn't seen for 25 years—it was a very emotional experience watching these men as they saw their own heritage coming back to life.
		In the early '80s museum staff realized that the museum was going to be in peril and ordered that the display objects be taken off and put into boxes.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2004/11/1117_041117_afghan_treasure.html (1168 words)

	The Buddhist Channel \| Archaeology \| Kabul Museum Presents First Exhibition
		Kabul, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan is displayed in a Kabul museum during its first exhibition since the fall of the Taliban, 13 December 2004.
		These treasures and many others were tragically lost when the Kabul Museum was bombed in 1993.
		The Taliban destroyed numerous statues in the museum which survived the previous looting and destruction as a result of war.
	www.buddhistchannel.tv /index.php?id=4,418,0,0,1,0 (240 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Museums around the world
		The age of enlightenment in the paintings of France's national museums on-line exhibition.
		Museums of Lithuania (in English, French and German).
		Holland Museums from the Netherlands Board of Tourism supported by the Netherlands Association of Museums.
	icom.museum /vlmp/world.html (1076 words)

	Plunderers Erases a Cultural History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		There is not much left to see inside Kabul museum these days, even if you manage to get inside the normally locked front door.
		The ivories were the museum's star exhibits - a series of exquisite Indian panels nearly 2,000 years old, dug up by French archaeologists in the 1930s from the capital of what was once King Kanishka's flourishing empire.
		As photos of the vanished exhibits began to circulate among museums around the world, attention was shifting away from Peshawar to other cities in Pakistan.
	www.buddhistnews.tv /bamiyan/bamiyan3.htm (1394 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| War \| Cultural losses of the war (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The city of Bagram, to the north of Kabul, was once the seat of a flourishing Graeco-Buddhist civilisation that allied the figurative traditions of Greek sculpture with the spiritual content of Buddhism.
		It is now believed that the vast majority of the museum's collections, containing ivories, statues, paintings, coins, gold, pottery, armaments and dress from the region's pre-historic period to the Bactrian, Kushan and Gandharan civilisations and through to the Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim periods, is now in private collections in Europe, the United States and Japan.
		Objects were taken to the cellars of various government buildings in Kabul, and the Tilla-Tepe hoard, the famous "Bactrian Gold" discovered by Russian archaeologists in 1978 and containing 21,000 gold objects dating from 100 BC to 100 AD, was locked in vaults in the basement of the presidential palace.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/565/11wa1.htm (1162 words)

	MUSEUM SECURITY MAILINGLIST REPORTS
		Afghanistan's National Museum in Kabul is in ruins, with most of its artifacts destroyed by the Taliban or looted during factional fighting.
		So, what we have here in the museum is not so much the high-value, historic archaeological antiquities, but much more items of recent Afghan history of the last 150 years." Bucherer-Dietschi says his museum now houses up to 3,000 artifacts, most smuggled out during the 1990s.
		Those who visit the museum find several exquisite artifacts dating back to 1,500 B.C. Among the objects on display is a 3,500-year-old stone statue of a man and a bronze object dating from the same era that was probably used to imprint bread loaves.
	www.museum-security.org /02/054.html (2499 words)

	Afghanistan - ICOMOS World Report on Monuments and Sites in Danger 2001: Heritage @ Risk
		The disastrous years of 1992-95 saw the destruction of Kabul itself, which left the Museum building partially laid waste, its staff scattered and much of the collections demolished, looted and dispersed throughout the world.
		Museum staff, reduced from 70 to 20 members, worked heroically - with no electricity, no running water, under shelling and rocket fire, with salaries ranging from $6 a month for a top cadre post to $2 for guards.
		Valiant efforts are being made by the Afghanistan Museum in Basel to assemble and document donations of artefacts for safekeeping and eventual return to Afghanistan.
	www.international.icomos.org /risk/2001/afgha2001.htm (801 words)

	Afghan News Channel www (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A ruling Taliban armed fighter stands guard at the entrance to the National Museum in the Afghan capital of Kabul, March 22, 2001.
		An official at the National Museum in the Afghan capital Kabul holds a lantern to allow journalists to see what is left at the museum, March 22, 2001.
		A Taliban official shows the pieces of ancient artifacts in racks at the basement of the Kabul Museum which houses most of the remaining antiques of Afghan heritage on Thursday, March 22, 2001 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
	www.afghan-network.net /News/Archives/2001/museum.html (268 words)

	Enemies of
		The only point we would like to add is that the treacherous jehadi fundamentalists had only plundered and sold Kabul museum, but now their brethren Taliban are playing with the dignity and pride of our people.
		Shifted to the idyllic settings of Darul Aman in 1931, Afghanistan’s national museum is one of the richest cultural repositories in the world, housing the most elegant antiquities from Alexandria, Ashokan, Akhamansheed, Greek, Budd-hist, Kanishkan, Zoroastrian and Muslim periods.
		In the case of the Kabul Museum, however, all indications suggest that the looting was carried out with careful consideration; it was probably not plundered wantonly by illiterate Mujahideen.
	www.museum-security.org /afghan-heritage.htm (1544 words)

	Last news - Help the Kabul's museum!
		First sending was realized on September 9, 2003 by way of the UNESCO and was received by the museum of Kabul on October 16, 2003.
		Second sending left on Thursday, February 19, 2004, transported by Farida Kamal, doctor and was received by the director of the museum of Kabul March 3, 2004.
		It was receptionné by the director of the museum on Tuesday, May 19, 2004.
	www.eleves.ens.fr /home/novak/english/actualite.en.html (227 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| OPINION > National Geographic fellow rediscovers ‘lost’ Afghan treasures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Most of the Kabul Museum’s collection, which included Silk Road artifacts from China, Egypt, India, Greece and Rome besides ancient Afghanistan, disappeared following the 1979 Soviet invasion and the years of civil war, which followed the 1989 Soviet withdrawal.
		Hiebert said how the treasures were secreted from the museum and where they have been hidden for all these years remained shrouded in mystery.
		“When the Kabul Museum building itself was destroyed all the paper documents were destroyed, all the archival materials,” he added.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2004/nov/21/yehey/opinion/20041121opi7.html (1428 words)

	The Daily Star - Arts & Culture - Kabul's lost treasures resurface after 25 years in hiding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"The majority of the items that were on display in the old Kabul Museum -- and that is the masterpieces -- are preserved," Hiebert told AFP by telephone from Philadelphia, where he holds a research position at the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
		Most of the Kabul Museum's collection, which included Silk Road artifacts from China, Egypt, India, Greece and Rome besides ancient Afghanistan, disappeared following the 1979 Soviet invasion and the years of civil war that followed the 1989 Soviet withdrawal.
		Hiebert explained how the treasures were secreted from the museum and where they have been hidden for all these years remained shrouded in mystery.
	www.dailystar.com.lb /article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&Article_id=10300 (680 words)

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