“If he had been thy guest, why with his mace, Cow-headed, has he done such violence?”
Shah Nameh
Artifacts and images found in an ancient city often dominate the impression of what life was like previously. On a four-day visit to Afghanistan in 2006, I made a one-day journey to the area. The location presented risks to traveling without others, so others repeated the maxim to return before dark. So I found a local van that took me from Mazar Sharif to the ancient town of Balkh.
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