Kabul Museum

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About Kabul Museum

Kabul museum is Afghanistan’s national museum and still is one of the richest cultural repositories in the world. The National Museum once covered 50,000 years of history, and held one of the worlds greatest multi cultural antique collections: Persian, Indian, Chinese, Central Asian, Greco-Roman, Arab and the most elegant antiquities from Alexandria, Ashokan, Akhamansheed, Greek, Budd-hist, Kanishkan, Zoroastrian and Muslim periods. For thousands of years, Afghanistan was a crossroad for trade from India, Iran, and Central Asia. As a result, many treasures and artifacts have been discovered and collected.The Kabul Museum is the most comprehensive record of Central Asian history. Many of its pieces have been dated as far back as pre-historic times. One of the museum's largest displays was the magnificent Bagram Collection. Discovered in 1939, by archaeologists excavating a Kushan fort. It contained an amazing 1,800 pieces from India, Rome, Greece, Egypt, and Central Asia. The Kabul Museum also had one of the largest displays of Greek and Roman coins found near Kabul. This collection was a historical treasure, as it contained coins from numerous civilizations dating from the 8th century B.C. to the late 19th century.