Much of his collection is of looted or smuggled items, but those recognisably from the Kabul Museum have been returned.

The Kabul Museum was hit by a rocket in 1993, and since then it has been overrun by warring clans of mujahedeen.

The Kabul Museum was once one of the greatest museums in the world.

After the Kabul Museum closed in 1978 the whereabouts of the ivories was uncertain, and many items were looted in the 1990s.

Those in the Kabul Museum were badly damaged under the Taliban but have since been restored.

And it is the link between these two displays which explains why the Kabul Museum has chosen to present these works first in France.

Kabul Museum has archeological and ethnographic exhibits.

Kabul Museum - excavated material, stone head.

Under it, too, archaeological sites were ransacked, as was the Kabul Museum.

They also opened the Kabul Museum to reveal empty spaces where other ancient artworks once stood.