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Title	Afghanistan : crossroads of the ancient world / edited by Fredrik Hiebert and Pierre Cambon.
Publication Info.	London : British Museum Press, 2011.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 12	709.35 A	IN LIBRARY

Description	303 p. : col. ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Note	Accompanies exhibition at the British Museum, Mar. 3-July 3, 2011; text previously issued as: Afghanistan: hidden treasures from the National Museum, Kabul. National Geographic Society, c2008.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-303).
Contents	The National Museum of Afghanistan / Omara Khan Massoudi -- Saving Afghanistan's heritage / Carla Grissmann, Fredrik Hiebert -- The lost worlds of Afghanistan / Fredrik Hiebert -- The treasure of Tepe Fullol / Jean-François Jarrige. Tepe Fullol catalog / Fredrik Hiebert -- The Greek colony at Aï Khanum and Hellinism in Central Asia ; Aï Khanum catalog / Paul Bernard -- Begram, at the heart of the Silk Roads / Sanjyot Mehendale. Begram, Alexandria of the Caucasus, capital of the Kushan Empire / Pierre Cambon. Begram catalog / Sanjyot Mehendale -- Ancient Bactria's golden hoard / Viktor Ivanovich Sarianidi. Tillya Tepe, the hill of gold, a nomad necropolis ; Tillya Tepe catalog / Véronique Schiltz.
Subject	Afghanistan -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions.
	Art, Afghan -- Exhibitions.
Added Author	Hiebert, Fredrik T. (Fredrik Talmage), editor.
	Cambon, Pierre, editor.
	National Geographic Society (U.S.)
	Mūzah-ʼi Kābul.
	British Museum.
Added Title	Crossroads of the ancient world
ISBN	9780714111728
	0714111724

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