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Surkh Kotal
Street address: 12 kilometres from Pul e Khomri, Baghlan, Baghlan Province, Afghanistan
Mailing address: Baghlan Provincial Department of Information and Culture, Baghlan Provincial Government, Baghlan, Baghlan Province, Afghanistan
Proprietor: Ministry of Information and Culture and Baghlan Provincial Department of Information and Culture
Contact: Nezmoddin Nasroddin Director of Historic Monuments
Dates and duration: Open during daylight hours
 Pul e Khomri, is a temple from the Khushan period (c 130 CE) which was excavated by the Délégation archéologique Française en Afghanistan (DAFA) during the 1950s. An inscribed tablet found here is located in the foyer of the National Museum in Kabul, but the statue of Kanishka from the site was smashed by the Taliban and is now being pieced together again by the conservationists in the museum. During the wars of the 1990s soldiers used the site on the top of the hill and their trenches can still be seen. During their free time they dug tunnels in search of objects to sell and much of the staircase and columns have disappeared.
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