GHAZNI PROVINCE, Afghanistan - Ghazni Provincial Reconstruction Team members stand amid Afghan graves that surround the 13th century Ali Lala Mausoleum, northeast of Ghazni city, Aug. 24. The team brought along Laura Tedesco, the cultural heritage program manager, who was visiting from Kabul to find out how she could support cultural heritage initiatives for the 2013 Center for Islamic Culture in Ghazni city. (Photo by U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Katherine Roling, Ghazni Provincial Reconstruction Team Public Affairs)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GHAZNI PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Archaeologists Marek Lemiesz, with the Polish district support group, and Laura Tedesco, the cultural heritage program manager from Kabul, head down into Sultan Abdul Razzaq’s crypt while an Afghan man working on the mausoleum’s refurbishment holds the gate open Aug. 24. Stories say Razzaq wanted the crypt to be a burial place for his family, but instead he was buried alone for unknown reasons. (Photo by U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Katherine Roling, Ghazni Provincial Reconstruction Team Public Affairs)GHAZNI PROVINCE, Afghanistan – A Polish soldier with the Ghazni Provincial Reconstruction Team stops outside the 16th century Mausoleum of Abdul Razzaq, which is on the outskirts of Rawza village in Ghazni district, Aug. 24. The building is being transformed into a museum with funding from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. (Photo by U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Katherine Roling, Ghazni Provincial Reconstruction Team Public Affairs)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GHAZNI PROVINCE, Afghanistan – U.S. Army Spc. Timothy Collins from Philadelphia, a civil affairs member with the Ghazni Provincial Reconstruction Team, walks down to the PRT’s next stop, the fortress ruins at the foot of the third century Tepe Sardar Buddhist stupa-and-monastery complex, Aug. 24. (Photo by U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Katherine Roling, Ghazni Provincial Reconstruction Team Public Affairs)

 

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