Bagrām

Bagram lies at the meeting of the Ghorband and Panjshir valleys north of Kabul. Its ancient city occupied a point where roads led west into the mountains toward Bamiyan and north across the passes toward Balkh. Finds from the Kushan period reveal connections with distant centres of the ancient world. Up the Panjshir valley, medieval miners worked important silver deposits, and a mint was established close to the mines. The river and its tributaries provided routes through the high country above the Kabul plain.