Khair Khaneh is an archaeological site located near

Kabul Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. Acco ...

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. A Brahmanical Temple was excavated there in the 1930s by

Joseph Hackin Joseph Hackin (8 November 1886, Boevange-sur-Attert – 24 February 1941) was a French archaeologist and Resistance member. He was a curator at the Musée Guimet and explored Afghanistan in 1923 with Alfred Foucher and Andre Godard. Biography B ...

. The construction of the Khair Khaneh temple itself is dated to 608-630 CE, at the beginning of the Turk Shahis period. Most of the remains, including marble statuettes, date to the 7th–8th century, during the time of the

Turk Shahi The Turk Shahis or Kabul Shahis were a dynasty of Western Turk, or mixed Turko-Hephthalite, origin, that ruled from Kabul and Kapisa to Gandhara in the 7th to 9th centuries AD. They may have been of Khalaj ethnicity."The new rulers of Kabul, ...

. File:Map of Khair Khaneh.jpg, Map of Khair Khaneh, near

File:Khair Khaneh excavations in 1933.jpg, Khair Khaneh excavations in 1933 File:Khair Khaneh ruins.jpg, Khair Khaneh ruins File:Khair Khaneh sanctuary (donor).jpg, Khair Khaneh sanctuary: a donor wearing a tunic, boots and a sword. File:Seated Avalokiteshvara, white marble, Khair Khaneh, 6th-7th century CE. Musée Guimet MA 8151.jpg, Seated Avalokiteshvara, white marble, Khair Khaneh, 6th-7th century CE.

Musée Guimet The Guimet Museum (full name in french: Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet; MNAAG; ) is an art museum located at 6, place d'Iéna in the XVIe arrondissement, 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. Literally translated into English, its ful ...

MA 8151. File:Khair Khaneh sanctuary (reconstitution by Jean Carl).jpg, Khair Khaneh sanctuary (reconstitution by Jean Carl)

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