Things to find in Afghanistan

What the map holds here

• Afghan emerald of the Panjshir Gem & mineral ground
  Beyond lapis, the Panjshir Valley of Afghanistan produces emeralds that rival Colombia’s at their best, mined in small hand-driven adits high on the valley walls, often with crude explosives that shatter much of the crop. The...
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• Afghan lapis lazuli (Sar-e-Sang) Gem & mineral ground
  The oldest continuously worked gem mine in the world. The lapis of Sar-e-Sang in the Badakhshan mountains of Afghanistan has been dug for over six thousand years, and it is the very stone in Tutankhamun’s mask, in Sumerian...
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• Darul Aman Palace Haunted place
  A European-style palace on a hill outside Kabul, built in the 1920s for a modernising king whose reforms were rejected, then burned, shelled through the civil war of the 1990s until it was a roofless skeleton, and finally...
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Every one of these is sourced

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