Helmand culture
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The Helmand culture, c. 3300–2350 BCE, was a Bronze Age culture that flourished mainly in the middle and lower valley of the Helmand River, originally in eastern Iran and southern Afghanistan, predomi
Pottery vessel from Shahr-e Sukhteh
Afghanistan
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Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, Iran to the w
Helmand culture
…middle and lower valley of the Helmand River, originally in eastern Iran (Zabol, other name: Sistan in Sistan and Baluchestan Province) and southern Afghanistan (Kandahar, Helmand and Nimruz provinces), predominantly in the third millennium BCE. The people of the Helmand culture lived partly in cities with…
Tents of Afghan nomads in the northern Badghis Province. Early peasant farming villages came into existence about 7,000 years ago.
A "Bactrian gold" Scythian belt depicting Dionysus, from Tillya Tepe in the ancient region of Bactria
Portrait of Ahmad Shah Durrani, c. 1757
Afghan tribesmen in 1841, painted by British officer James Rattray