Silk Road Treasures in Afghanistan

Silk Road Treasures

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Treasures of the Silk Road

Pictured here are shoes, sculptures, and goblets for sale at a Kabul bazaar.

The oil lamps seem to have stepped off the pages of the Arabian Nights.

Located in central Asia, Afghanistan played a major role in ancient and medieval trading networks.

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Henry VIII (1536) by Hans Holbein the Younger

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