Afghanistan
Subtitle: hidden treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
By: [edited by Fredrik Hiebert and Pierre Cambon].
Contributors: Hiebert, Fredrik T.; Cambon, Pierre.; Mūzah-ʾi Kābul.; National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781426202957
Subjects: Mūzah-ʼi Kābul -- Exhibitions; Art, Afghan -- Exhibitions; Afghanistan -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: As war raged across the jagged Afghan countryside, the staff of the Afghan National Museum spirited away, piece by piece, to hiding places all over the Kabul region, each time risking their lives, sworn to silence, it was a secret they kept until the fall of the Taliban--almost thirty years of deadly danger, courage, and fierce honor.
Notes: Catalog of exhibition held at National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 25-Sept. 27, 2008; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 24, 2008-Jan. 25, 2009; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, Feb. 22-May 17, 2009; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, June 23-Sept. 20, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-297).
Table of contents: title: The National Museum of Afghanistan / Omara Khan Massoudi; title: Saving Afghanistan's heritage / Carla Grissmann and Fredrik Hiebert; title: The treasure of Tepe Fullol / Jean-François Jarrige. Tepe Fullol catalog / Fredrik Hiebert; title: The Greek colony at Aï Khanum and Hellinism in Central Asia ; Aï Khanum catalog / Paul Bernard; title: Begram, at the heart of the Silk Roads / Sanjyot Mehendale. Begram, Alexandria of the Caucasus, capital of the Kushan Empire / Pierre Cambon. Begram catalog / Sanjyot Mehendale; title: Ancient Bactria's golden hoard / Viktor Ivanovich Sarianidi. Tillya Tepe, the hill of gold, a nomad necropolis ; Tillya Tepe catalog / Véronique Schiltz.