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Historic Mausoleum Reopens in Afghanistan

Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Afghanistan, Arts & Culture, History
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The badly damaged mausoleum of Timur Shah in 2000. Image by Olaf Kellerhoff (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Circling the Lion's Den reports [2] that the mausoleum of Timur Shah that had been badly damaged during the Afghan civil war has been restored and reopened in Kabul. The mausoleum is an important historic and Islamic monument built in the early nineteenth century.