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Painstaking rescue of Kabul’s crumbling Bala Hissar fortress reveals 2,000 years of Afghan history
The project aims to stabilize the fortress and create a public archaeological park with a museum and training for Afghan students, officials said.
- The Aga Khan Trust for Culture is painstakingly conserving Kabul's Bala Hissar fortress, transforming it into a public archaeological park complete with landscaped gardens, restaurants and a museum.
- Located on the Kuh-e-Sher Darwaza ridge, Bala Hissar served as a strategic military and political hub along trade routes connecting the Indian subcontinent to Central Asia. Nouri described it as 'part of a string of pearls of these types of cultural and human settlements.'
- Excavations in five trenches have unearthed ancient coins, Buddhist statues, glazed Islamic ceramics, oil lamps and pottery fragments, along with remains of palaces and monasteries. One trench is already 11 meters deep.
- Ministry of Information and Culture spokesperson Khubaib Ghufran stated the government prioritizes restoring monuments like Bala Hissar, aiming to 'pass on the legacy of both past and present civilizations to future generations in a well-preserved state.'
- British, Soviet, and U.S. forces caused extensive damage to the site over decades of conflict, yet restoration remains a long-term commitment spanning decades due to the site's archaeological richness and more than 2,000 years of habitation.
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