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Treasure Hunting in Afghanistan

time.com — Archaeologists from around the world are now looking at what lies beneath the ruins of more than two decades of war in Afghanistan.

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  • chicagojack, on 02/27/2009, -0/+10NO THANKS
  • TheScreamer, on 02/27/2009, -0/+6Yeah. 2 words: unexploded ordinances
  • LongShlong, on 02/27/2009, -0/+4Depleted uranium.
  • AQMessiah, on 02/27/2009, -0/+4Afghanistan has (or at least had) a great deal of archaeological sites/artifacts that were neglected because of the Taliban. If we can resume the excavations that were abandoned several decades ago maybe we can shine a bright light on the lives of the ancient Mid East.
    As for your heroin comment, there's a very good reason why heroin is grown in Afghanistan, do yourself a favor and research the Russian war in Afghanistan and it'll explain why they've been forced to grow opium as a means of survival.
  • diggabytes, on 02/27/2009, -0/+4It's bizarre to think of "gold miners" that don't find nuggets but statues. Great photos and kudos for putting the looting in context. Poverty and hunger can suck the value right out of an old clay pot or busted mosaic!
  • hasslinthehoff, on 02/27/2009, -0/+4If only Indy had traveled here instead of chasing that damn Crystal Skull. Sigh.
  • wjlaw100, on 02/27/2009, -0/+3Lookout, you mind find the rare but very deadly... landmine.
  • AQMessiah, on 02/28/2009, -0/+4You understand correctly...The Russians were there first, they tore apart the Afghani way of life in order to subdue them. Their olive, fig, peach (etc etc) crops were devastated by the Russians. In need of a crop easy to grow and profitable to live off of they turned to poppy plants. The Taliban managed to suppress for the most part growing the plant but once the U.S. invaded and pushed out the Taliban they were once again allowed to grow the crops as long as they worked with U.S. forces fighting the "War on Terror."

    Read the article, you'll learn something...
  • inactive, on 02/27/2009, -0/+2Bones?
  • NuttyVirus, on 02/27/2009, -0/+2Indeed, it was once a very beautiful country that contained treasures from all over the world. But the only treasure you are going to find now are scraps of metal from shells and bombs.
  • sanman, on 02/28/2009, -0/+2There's a lot of pre-Islamic art that's been smashed in Afghanistan by the Taliban, simply because it was pre-Islamic

    The Greek Buddhas of Bamiyan were a prime example of this, having been dynamited by the Taliban. Nobody anywhere in the Muslim world felt even the slightest embarrassment at such a travesty. Just another crime without culprits to them.
  • AlienMushroom, on 02/28/2009, -1/+3Osama bin Laden!
  • inactive, on 02/27/2009, -0/+2@cristinamk Maybe you should have a look at the article
  • cristinamk, on 02/27/2009, -1/+2what treasure can be there excluding 98% of all world heroin?
  • goodfriend19, on 03/12/2009, -0/+0Wonderful photographs
  • cristinamk, on 02/27/2009, -1/+1do I understand you right? you mean Afganistan is world's leader of heroin production because of USSR? then why the production tenfold since US is there? because of good life?

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