MegalithFringe site
Kandahar
Also known asQandahar · Candahar
Datedc. 1000–750 BCE
Photo Karla Marshall · Public domainSource file on Wikimedia Commons
Overview
About this site
Overview
Kandahar is an other / unclassified in Afghanistan. It is also known as Qandahar, Candahar. It lies at 31.6207° N, 65.7159° E.
Catalogue recordSources and licences
Where it sits in time
The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
Article
Kandahar
ContextSources for this section
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
The Atlas uses the heading "other" for stone monuments that fit none of its other types, and the same article serves for underground chambers that have no regional article. The records are varied. Many are ziggurats, Egyptian temples and pyramids, and Maya and Andean sites, which are treated in their own articles. What remains is a scatter of single sites in many countries whose descriptions do not allow a closer classification. The regional background, “Other prehistoric stone monuments”, is given below.
DatingSources for this section
- Fringe claim sourceCC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- Fringe claim sourceCC BY-SA 4.0
The site is dated 1000 BCE to 750 BCE by a published source statement. Kandahar was settled between 1000 and 750 BC, and became an outpost of the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC.
Published age estimates for the site include 1000 BCE to 750 BCE (published source). The mainstream range is 1000 BCE to 750 BCE.
Setting
No other recorded monument lies within 10 km. The nearest is Mundigak, 44.2 km to the west. In Afghanistan, 3 of the 3 recorded monuments are of this type.
The nearest recorded monuments are Mundigak (44.2 km west, other / unclassified).
ProtectionSources for this section
Sources for this section
No heritage designation is recorded for the site.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Other prehistoric stone monuments
The Atlas uses the heading "other" for stone monuments that fit none of its other types, and the same article serves for underground chambers that have no regional article. The records are varied. Many are ziggurats, Egyptian temples and pyramids, and Maya and Andean sites, which are treated in their own articles. What remains is a scatter of single sites in many countries whose descriptions do not allow a closer classification.
Several of these are underground. A hypogeum is literally an "underground" temple or tomb, often with niches for cremated remains or loculi for buried remains. An early example is found at the Minoan Bronze Age site of Knossos on Crete, a beehive-shaped vault cut into soft rock. The Hypogeum of Ħal Saflieni in Paola, Malta, is the oldest example of a prehistoric hypogeum, with its earliest phase dated to 3600 to 3300 BCE. It is a complex of underground chambers, halls and passages covering about 500 square metres on three levels, partly carved to imitate temple architecture and containing extensive prehistoric art.
A rock-cut tomb is cut into an existing rock formation, usually a cliff or sloping rock face, and was a common burial form for the wealthy in several parts of the world. Famous clusters are in Egypt, Iran, Lycia in Turkey, Petra in Jordan and Sicily. Phrygian rock-cut tombs such as the Midas monument date to about 700 BCE, and Etruscan ones to about 500 BCE.
The general rule for these records is that the type tells you how a monument was made, not who made it or when. Dating is taken from the source for each site where a source gives one, and otherwise left as a broad range.
When visiting, read the site's own description first, since the Atlas can offer only a general frame.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Megalith, Wikipedia: Hypogeum, Wikipedia: Rock-cut tomb, Wikipedia: Stele · CC BY-SA 4.0
Photographs
7 photographs, each with its author and licence
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Lore
Evidence & Lore
What the sources actually support — and, kept apart, what has been claimed.
What the evidence supports
Dates
1000–750 BCEHow this date was established: Stated by the sourceKandahar was settled between 1000 and 750 BC, and became an outpost of the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC.Source for this date
Where it stands
Afghanistan
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 31°37′14″ N, 65°42′57″ EFor a GPS or map app: 31.62068, 65.71588
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Sources
Every record behind this page, with the link it came from.
2 sources behind this page
- 01Wikidata Q45604wikidata.org
- 02Fringe claim sourceen.wikipedia.org
Image files
- Kam Air at Kandahar International Airport in 2012.jpgKarla MarshallPublic domain
- Ruins of old Kandahar Citadel in 1881.jpgSir Benjamin Simpson (1831-1923)Public domain
- Park in Kandahar.jpgSgt. Breanne Pye (U.S. armed forces)CC BY 2.0
- Women from 203rd Zone Afghan Border Police and TAAC-S attend shura at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan 150809-N-SQ656-227.jpgLt. Kristine VolkPublic domain
- KandaharUniversity-Mosque-2005.JPEGPFC ANGULO, LESLIEPublic domain
- Old Kandahar and Chil Zena.jpgKarla MarshallPublic domain
- Aerial photograph of Kandahar Province in 2011.jpgKarla MarshallPublic domain
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
Credit
Text, licence and sources
Compiled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a regional background article based on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Wikidata Q45604CC0
- Fringe claim sourceCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0