At-Chapar

At-Tschapar is an archaeological excavation site in the north of Afghanistan .

At-Tschapar was in the middle of the first millennium BC. A circular system with a diameter of about 100 meters was built. The interior of the facility was completely undeveloped. One outer wall had an inner corridor and on the outside a series of semicircular towers, accessible from the corridor through doors. All along the exterior facades there were loopholes . From the corridor there were also passages into the large, undeveloped inner courtyard. Hardly any pottery was found during the excavations , only a pot from the Achaemenid period in a tower . The function of the system is unclear. It may have been a fortress or a sanctuary, or the construction may never have been completed.

literature

• Viktor Sarianidi : The Art of Old Afghanistan , Leipzig 1986, pp. 75–78 ISBN 3-527-17561-X