fghanistan - More than 1,400 artifacts — protected from looters
and the Taliban since 1999 at a museum-in-exile in Switzerland —
were returned to the National Museum of
Afghanistan on Saturday.
The collection, which includes a piece from a foundation stone
that was "touched by Alexander the Great" and several items
thousands of years old, was assembled in Switzerland by Afghans who
wanted to save their cultural heritage after decades of war.