Experts point out that this concern does not extend to Afghanistan’s intangible heritage. Music, dance, folklore, and any artistic expression involving women remain strictly prohibited under the group ...

The earliest depictions of her in sculpture, though, come from an entirely unexpected place: one of the major cities of the Central Asian Kushan empire, Mathura, in the upper Gangetic Plains.

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