NEW DISCOVERIES OF ROCK ART IN AFGHANISTAN'S WAKHAN CORRIDOR AND PAMIR: A PRELIMINARY STUDY

Abstract

rom at least the fi rst century BCE when China’s Han Dynasty became the predominant power in the Pamir, merchants, monks, travelers and occasionally armies passed through Wakhan and the Pamir along one of the main branches of the so-called “Silk Road” (Fig. 1). Their accounts provide a rich historical record of the kingdom of Wakhan 1 and of its strategic role in the great rivalries for control of routes through the Pamir. 2 Wakhan’s archaeological record, in comparison, remains largely unknown. Our knowledge of the historical archaeology of Wakhan comes largely from Aurel Stein’s brief visit in 1906. Stein, who sought to correlate on-the-ground reality with the textual record of the Tang Annals, 3 traveled through Wakhan in May 1906 on his way to Khotan. 4 He entered Wakhan

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