Lost Afghan city located, says expert

Published October 19, 2003

PARIS, Oct 18: French journalist Olivier Weber, just back from Afghanistan with an expedition he organized under the patronage of Unesco, says that he has rediscovered the lost city of Siruzkoh, the mythical Atlantis-like former capital of Afghanistan that was destroyed in 1222 by Genghis Khan.

The Paris-Kabul scientific expedition was able to determine “irrefutably,” he says, the precise emplacement of Siruzkoh, as a result of the investigation of a scientific researcher, Monique Kervran, who works for a French thinktank.

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