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The rock relief discovered in the village of Shamarq, Baghlan Province… [2004]

In the winter of 2003 SPACH funded an expedition led by Dr. Jonathan Lee, specialist in Afghan history, to a village on the outskirts of Pul-i-Khumri in order to determine the exact location of a relief sculpture reportedly in the area. Dr Lee had seen photos of the relief prior to this. They were delivered to him by a BBC reporter in London who had been directed to it by Ministry of Information and Culture officials in Baghlan Province earlier that year. Dr. Lee immediately recognized that if the reports of the location of the relief were accurate, it would certainly be of great significance for the history and archaeology of Afghanistan.

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Artifacts returned to the Ministry of Information and Culture… [2003-04]
Since 1994 great efforts have been made to retrieve objects looted from the Kabul Museum before they disappeared into the world trade in illicit antiquities. Some items with the Kabul Museum accession numbers still on them were retrieved by SPACH from the antiquities markets in Peshawar, but most of the objects vanished without a trace and most probably forever.

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