Traces The Kabul Museum 1988 (2003)

The Kabul National Museum once known as the face of Afghanistan was destroyed in 1993 We filmed the most important cultural treasures of the stillintact museum in 1988 ancient GrecoRoman art and antiquitied of Hellenistic civilization as well as Buddhist sculpture that was said to have mythologythe art of Gandhara Bamiyan and Shotorak among them After the fall of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in 1992 some seventy percent of the contents of the museum was destroyed stolen or smuggled overseas to Japan and other countries The movement to return these items is also touched upon The footage in this video represents that only film documentation of the Kabul Museum ever made