The Kabul Museum, Kabul, houses the most comprehensive record of Central Asian history. A visit to Kabul Museum, Kabul, is an enlightening experience for the tourists. The Kabul Museum, Kabul offers information about the rich and varied past of Afghanistan.
As Afghanistan was a crossroad for trade from India, Iran, and Central Asia many treasures and artifacts have been discovered and collected here. Many of the discovered artifacts date back to the pre-historic times. The Bagram Collection is one of the museum’s largest and most magnificent displays. Discovered by archaeologists excavating a Kushan fort in the year 1939, the collection contains an amazing 1,800 pieces from India, Rome, Greece, Egypt and Central Asia.
The Kabul Museum also houses one of the largest displays of Greek and Roman coins found near Kabul. The coins belonged to numerous civilizations dating from the 8th century B.C. to the late 19th century.
The gallery A of the museum has collections reflecting Afghanistan’s tryst with Buddhism. At one time, Buddhism flourished in Afghanistan. The many sculptures in the museum are a testimony to this fact. The most resplendent of all is the 22 centimeter tall image of Buddha's head is from Shotorak. The quality of the sculptures is typical of many of the late Gandhara Buddha images.
In gallery B one can see figurines made out of baked clay. A few of these figurines supposedly represent the great pagan mother goddess. Most of these have been found in Southern Afghanistan.
Gallery C of the museum consists of a figure of Maitreya and worshippers from Paitava. This piece is from the 3rd Century and represents an oriental Roman sculpture.
Most of these treasures were tragically lost when the Kabul Museum was bombed in 1993. In the beginning only the upper galleries suffered losses and looting. The United Nations attempts to safeguard the museum failed, and looters continued to plunder a vast majority of the museum’s collections. Stolen artifacts have surfaced all over the world, ever since.
The Taliban which took control of Afghanistan were dead against preservation of artifacts and statues. They did their every bit to blow up all that remained to tell the history of the region.
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