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Carpet Seller, Herat, Afghanistan, c.1974 I have this carpet on my floor in England, and after more than 45 years it still looks great. |
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Turkoman Rug, |
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Carpet Shop, |
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Afghan Coat Shop, c.1974 |
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Afghan Coat Shop, c.1974 |
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Recycling worn out tyres into buckets & shoes, Afghanistan, c.1974 |
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Re-cycling car parts to make a water pump., Afghanistan, c.1974 |
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Butcher's Shops |
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Food Preparation, Kebab with flies |
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Baking Bread, Herat c.1974 |
The Great Mosque, Herat, 1974, |
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Minaret, The Great Mosque, Herat |
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| The Great Mosque, Herat, 1974, also known as The Friday Mosque or Masjid Juma. |
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Wall Detail, The Great Mosque, |
The Musalla Complex This was a complex comprising of a mosque, madrassa, mausoleum and over twenty minarets commissioned by Gowhar Shad,
the wife of Shah Rukh, in the late 15th century. Robert Byron was so moved by its fine decoration to write 'if the mosaic on the rest
of the Musalla surpassed or even equalled what survives today, there was never such a mosque before or since.'
The complex was reduced to rubble, apart from a few minarets, by the British Army in the Second Afghan War.
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The Musalla Complex |
The Musalla Complex |
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Central Afghanistan, 1970 |
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Afghans, Herat |
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Afghans, c.1974 |
Afghan Father & Son, c.1974 |
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Afghan Tea Shops, c.1974 |
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Tangi Gharu Gorge, Kabul-Jalabad, c.1974 
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Motorway Services ;-) |
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Truck, Af-Pak Border, c.1974 |
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Taxi, Af-Pak Border, c.1974
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Khyber Pass, Pakistan, c.1974 |
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When you've finished viewing the photos of Afghanistan check out my "Maps of Afghanistan" |
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