{"id":233,"date":"2008-07-05T20:52:46","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T04:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2008-07-05T20:52:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T04:52:46","slug":"afghanistans-hidden-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/afghanistans-hidden-treasures\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan’s hidden treasures"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “care takers” of Afghanistan’s precious antiquities from the ancient era concealed the treasures from Soviets, then taliban. These were feared to be lost; with the help National Geographic society along with Afghanisatan’s National Museum the unearthed trove reveals Afghanistan to be a metling pot and major trading hub where people from “east” brought muslin, spices, and ivory while the people from the west brought exotic minerals, gems, tools.<\/p>\n

While reading the recent article on this discovery, I found a stunning picture\u00a0of Ganga<\/a>, the river goddess, carved out in ivory.<\/p>\n

\"River<\/p>\n

See the original photos<\/a> and story<\/a> at NGM. The treasure is going to be on display at Asian Art Museum of San Francisco<\/a>\u00a0in San Francisco, California between October 24, 2008, to January 25, 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The “care takers” of Afghanistan’s precious antiquities from the ancient era concealed the treasures from Soviets, then taliban. These were feared to be lost; with the help National Geographic society along with Afghanisatan’s National Museum the unearthed trove reveals Afghanistan to be a metling pot and major trading hub where people from “east” brought muslin, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,79,87,12],"tags":[323,325,305],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}