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Location:

  • Afghanistan, Mīrābād
  • geo:31.907837,65.501045
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -36xx / -4xx

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=34258

Annotations

BALL Warwick (2018), Archaeological gazetteer of Afghanistan, revised edition, Oxford

One of the most ancient towns in urban civilization
Mundigak, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, is an archaeological site in Kandahar province in Afghanistan. It's situated c. 55 km northwest of Kandahar near Shāh Maqsūd, on the upper drainage of the Kushk-i Nakhud River.

Mundigak has small amounts of Indus Valley Civilization material. This material consists in part of ceramic figurines of snakes and humped bulls, similar to those found at other Indus valley sites.


Nearby

Mundigak - Palace

Mundigak "palace" : period IV monumental building.

Arukh (BALL 56) (1 km)

Late islamic settlement. Irregular group of low mounds. Probable site of ancient village of current Arukh.

Unidentified site (2 km)

Probable settlement. Located with satellite imagery.


This object was added by Ludwinski on 2017-01-19. Last update by Julien De Chocqueuse on 2022-12-15. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/34258 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
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