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Mundigak
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Mundigak () is an archaeological site in Kandahar province in Afghanistan. During the Bronze Age, it was a center of the Helmand culture. It is situated approximately northwest of Kandahar near Shāh Maqsūd, on the upper drainage of the Kushk-i Nakhud River.

Key facts

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Mundigakمنډیګک
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Archeological site
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Mundigak
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Afghanistan
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above
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300px
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yes
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Location in Afghanistan
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Country
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Province
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Kandahar
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District

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Encyclopedic overview

17 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Excavations
  • New Research
  • Period I to III
  • Period IV
  • Palace
  • Temple
  • Wall and residential city
  • Periods V
  • Periods VI and VII
  • Indus Valley links
  • Architecture
  • Artifacts found
  • Finds in the Musée Guimet, mainly from Period IV
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Mundigak () is an archaeological site in Kandahar province in Afghanistan. During the Bronze Age, it was a center of the Helmand culture. It is situated approximately northwest of Kandahar near Shāh Maqsūd, on the upper drainage of the Kushk-i Nakhud River.

==History== thumb|Vessel from Period IV Mundigak was a large prehistoric town with an important cultural sequence from the 5th–2nd millennia BCE. It was excavated by the French scholar in the 1950s. The mound was nine meters tall at the time of excavation.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mundigak” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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