The Begram Hoard
The Begram Hoard: still unexplained.
Sealed rooms of Silk Road luxury
Two sealed rooms at Begram held Roman glass, Indian ivories, and Chinese lacquer, the merged riches of the Silk Road; hidden through Afghanistan's wars, the hoard survived.
- French archaeologists in the 1930s broke into two rooms at Begram that had been sealed and walled up for nearly 2,000 years, and found them stacked with Roman glass, Indian ivories, and Chinese lacquer, the merged luxuries of the Silk Road.
What remains open
- No period map of the site has surfaced.
- No contemporary press coverage has been found.
No documentary claim is yet established. The account rests on tradition.
- No period map of the site has surfaced.
- No contemporary press coverage has been found.
No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.
- Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
- Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
- Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.
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- The Begram Hoard · archive record · tertiary · encyclopedia
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