Interview Five
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Esfandiari, Aziz
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content: National Museum of Afghanistan Oral Histories
unitdate: label: Date
content: December 22, 2023
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2024.03, File 5
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content: Archival materials
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content: This interview continues discussion of the damage to the National Museum of Afghanistan and its artifacts during the civil wars of the 1990s. Mr. Masoudi discusses significant objects stolen from the museum, particularly Buddhist era artifacts; the desperation of the people of Kabul as the situation degraded; how museum staff protected artifacts from looting and methods by which looting occurred; securing artifact in Da Afghanistan Bank; the securing and barricading of the first floor of the museum; research into the trade of looted artifacts; and efforts to recover artifacts.