A March 2000 image of the shuttered National Museum in Kabul shows the toll inflicted by decades of civil war. Many of the museum's treasures were removed and hidden in 1988 out of fear they would be looted or destroyed. Some were lost to war damage and the Taliban, but a large cache of artifacts survived. Many of the recovered items are on display in the traveling exhibition "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures From the National Museum, Kabul."