摘要：Years of war and instability have
led to profound damage to
Afghanistan¡¯s cultural heritage,
with the accidental or deliberate
destruction of ancient monuments
and works of art, the looting of the
Kabul museum and the pillaging
of sites such as A. Khanum by
treasure-seekers. At the same
time, a huge number of remarkable
and important
antiquities have come to light,
some no doubt as the result of
unofficial digging, others perhaps
chance finds resulting from the
displacement of peoples to remote
mountain refuges. These discoveries
include documents from
all periods of Afghan history, of
which I would like to mention a
few outstanding examples (in
approximately chronological
order):
. A group of nearly fifty Aramaic
documents from the archive of
the last Achaemenian satrap of
Bactria, ca. 353-324 BCE.
