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Below a selection of publications on Afghanistan (with a special focus on Bāmiyān and Kabul) by Deborah Klimburg-Salter.

Before Tomorrow - Excavating the Past, Building the Future in Afghanistan

Cover: Orientations, Volume 42, Number 6, September/October 2011

D. Klimburg-Salter: Before Tomorrow - Excavating the Past, Building the Future in Afghanistan. In: Orientations, Volume 42, Number 6, September/October 2011.

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Cultural Mobility, a Case Studie - the Crowned Buddha of the Kabul Shāh

Cover: Coins, Art and Chronology II, Wien 2010

D. Klimburg-Salter: Cultural Mobility, a Case Studie - the Crowned Buddha of the Kabul Shāh. In: Coins, Art and Chronology II. The First Millennium C.E. in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands. Veröffentlichungen der Numismatischen Komission, Band 50. Wien 2010, 39-56.

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Corridors of Communications Across Afghanistan 7th to 10th Centuries

Cover: Paysages du centre de l'Afghanistan, Paris 2010

D. Klimburg-Salter: Corridors of Communications Across Afghanistan 7th to 10th Centuries. In: Paysages du centre de l'Afghanistan. Paysages naturels, paysages culturels du centre de l'Afghanistan. Hindou-Kouch, Lacs de Band-e Amir Vallée de Bâmiyân. Paris 2010, 173-199.

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Buddhist painting in the Hindu Kush ca. VIIth to Xth centuries

Cover: Orientations, January/February 2006

D. Klimburg-Salter: Buddhist painting in the Hindu Kush ca. VIIth to Xth centuries. In: Islamisation de l'Asia Centrale. Processus locaux d'acculturation du VIIe au XIe siècle. Cahiers de Studia Iranica, 39. Paris 2009, 131-159.

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Twice Buried, Twice Found - Treasures of the Kabul Museum

Cover: Orientations, January/February 2006

D. Klimburg-Salter: Twice Buried, Twice Found - Treasures of the Kabul Museum. In: Orientations, Volume 37, Number 1, January/February 2006.

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Bāmiyān - An Obituary and a Glance towards the Future

Cover: Oriental Art, Vol XLIX, No. 1, 2003

D. Klimburg-Salter: Bāmiyān - An Obituary and a Glance towards the Future. In: Oriental Art, Vol XLIX, No. 1, 2003.

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