{"id":12344,"date":"2026-05-06T11:45:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/06\/afghanistan-registers-15-new-historical-sites-national-list-restoration\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:45:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:45:37","slug":"afghanistan-registers-15-new-historical-sites-national-list-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/06\/afghanistan-registers-15-new-historical-sites-national-list-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Registers 15 New Historical Sites on National List Amid Ongoing Restoration Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban\u2019s Ministry of Information and Culture has announced that approximately 70 historical sites across the country were surveyed in the past year, with 15 new sites officially added to the national register of historic places.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, four national and international organizations have collaborated under the leadership of the department responsible for the preservation and care of historical monuments. Further details about the nature of these organizations and the extent of their cooperation have not been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, 23 historical sites in the provinces of Kandahar, Bamyan, Ghazni, Kunar, Laghman, Paktia, Paktika, Helmand, and Kabul have been restored, with reconstruction work ongoing at several other monuments.<\/p>\n<p>With a history spanning several millennia, Afghanistan is regarded as one of the countries with a rich cultural heritage in the region. However, cultural experts have consistently emphasized that protecting historical monuments requires transparent planning, sustainable funding, and expert supervision\u2014an issue on which the Taliban administration is expected to be held accountable to prevent further destruction and loss of the nation&#8217;s cultural heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan adds 15 new historical sites to its national list and continues restoration efforts amid calls for better heritage protection under Taliban rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12344","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\/12344","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=12344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}