Curated category
Theocracies
- TalibanIn 1994, a group of Pashtun students emerged from religious schools in Kandahar to end the chaos of Afghanistan's civil war.
- Vatican CityThe name Vatican first appeared in the time of the Roman Republic. It described a marshy area on the west bank of the Tiber River.
- AfghanistanHuman habitation in what is now Afghanistan dates to the Middle Paleolithic era, with archaeological evidence suggesting people lived there at least 50,000…
- IranThe earliest known presence of hominins in Iran dates to around 800,000 BP. Middle Paleolithic sites have been discovered mainly in the Zagros Mountains.