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3 unusual facts about Chaki Wardak District


Chak-e Wardak Dam

The Chak-e Wardak Dam (Band-e Chak) is a dam near the Chak district center in Chaki Wardak District, Wardak Province, Afghanistan.

Chaki Wardak District

Outside Chaki Wardak there are many ancient Buddhist remains, including a fortified monastery and six stupas, one of which contained a bronze vase with a Kharoshthi inscription that held 61 Kushan coins, which is now in the British Museum's collection.

Wardak Vase

The Wardak Vase is the name of an ancient globular-shaped buddhist copper vase that was found as part of a stupa relic deposit in the early nineteenth century near Wardak in Afghanistan.



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