{"id":11446,"date":"2026-04-26T08:15:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/26\/24-ancient-artifacts-discovered-after-flood-ghazni\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:15:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:15:39","slug":"24-ancient-artifacts-discovered-after-flood-ghazni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/26\/24-ancient-artifacts-discovered-after-flood-ghazni\/","title":{"rendered":"24 Ancient Artifacts Discovered After Flood in Ghazni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghazni Department of Information and Culture has announced the discovery of 24 ancient artifacts following recent floods in the central district of the province, which have been handed over to the Ghazni Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Mullah Hamidullah Nesar, head of Ghazni\u2019s Department of Information and Culture, stated that these artifacts surfaced from beneath the soil in the &#8220;Aspandeh&#8221; area of the province&#8217;s center after the floods. According to him, the floodwaters led to the exposure of these historical objects.<\/p>\n<p>According to provided information, among these findings are 24 pottery items shaped like water pipes, which likely were part of an ancient structure. Additionally, a stone artifact inscribed with writing was also discovered, composed of five separate pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Ghazni is considered one of Afghanistan\u2019s ancient provinces and houses numerous historical sites. Previously, hundreds of historical artifacts were uncovered in different parts of the province and transferred to the National Museum of Ghazni. Experts consistently emphasize the importance of proper protection of the cultural heritage of this province, a matter that currently requires greater attention and resources from the Taliban administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 ancient artifacts, including pottery and inscribed stones, were discovered after recent floods in Ghazni and handed over to the local museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}