The Archaeology of Afghanistan: From Earliest Times to the Timurid Period: New Edition

About the editors:
Original edition edited by Raymond Allchin and Norman Hammond
Revised and updated edition edited by Warwick Ball with Norman Hammond

Afghanistan is at the cultural crossroads of Asia, where the great civilisations of Mesopotamia and Iran, South Asia and Central Asia overlapped and sometimes conflicted. Its landscape embraces environments from the high mountains of the Hindu Kush to the Oxus basin and the great deserts of Sistan; trade routes from China to the Mediterranean, ...