Friday, December 21, 2007

Afghanistan, Sharing Its Treasures (National Gallery to Host Nation's Ancient Artifacts)

The exhibit, which will be on display here for nearly four months before traveling to museums in New York, San Francisco and Houston, aims to provide a rare glimpse of the long-lost, creative melting pot that Afghanistan once represented -- centuries before it became known to most Westerners as a grim Cold War battlefield and a victim of horrific Islamic repression under the Taliban. Afghanistan's Lost Treasures

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