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Mes Aynak’s landscape is completely deforested today, and it’s possible that ancient copper smelting played a role in the area’s denuding—which in turn may have ended copper production.

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The Ministry of Information and Culture has announced that dozens of artifacts from the Mes Aynak archaeological site in Logar have been tr ...