KHULM - MAZAR-e SHARIF road 1 (Cave on the)

(ولسوالی خولم - AF)
36.750000,67.500000
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An obvious cave entrance (or only a rock shelter?) reports COON (1957a: 234) from the right (southern) side of the road from Mazar-i- Sharif to Khulm (also Kholm, alias Tash Qurghan AIMS 2002, Tachqourghan LINDBERG 1949, 1961a; Tashkurghan COON 1957a: 230; Tâsh- Kourghan = Tour-de- Pierre FOUCHER 1924: 158).

Documents

Bibliography 06/01/2018
  • Coon, Carlton Stevens 1957a, 1957b.

History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1954.03.27: Dr. Carlton Stevens COON (1957a, 1957b) and Mrs. (=Elizabeth 'Lisa' K. Ralph), Henry 'Hank' W. Coulter jr. (geologist) and Mohammed Nader Saweri Khan (inspector of the Antiquities Department of the Ministry of Education, Kabul) pass by. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

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