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Joseph Hackin excavated Khair Khaneh, an archaeological site close to Kabul, Afghanistan, in the 1930s. In Khair Khaneh, an exquisite marble statue of Lord Surya, the Hindu solar deity, was found wearing boots and a tunic. Based on numismatic evidence, some experts have also sugested that the marble statue discovered at the site is of Iranian Mithra. Additionally, a Hindu Brahmanical temple was also unearthed there. The Khair Khaneh temple was built between 608 and 630 CE, at the start of the Turk-Shahi-era. The statue itself dates back to the Turk Shahi era, when Hinduism was very much of a thriving religion religion in Afghanistan. The majority of the artefacts found there, including marble statuettes, are from the Turk-Shahi-reign from the seventh and eighth centuries. A certain Śrī Ṣāhi Khiňgāla, who may have been the Turk Shahi king Khingala, contributed the marble statue of Ganesha from Gardez, which is now credited to the Turk Shahis. During the seventh and ninth centuries AD, the Turk Shahis, a Western Turk or hybrid Turco-Hephthalite dynasty, ruled from Kabul and Kapisa to Gandhara. The Rashidun Caliphate had already subjugated the Sasanian Empire when the Turk Shahis emerged. After that, the Turk Shahis opposed the eastward expansion of Muslim Abbasid Caliphate for over 250 years until the Persian Saffarids overthrew them in the ninth century AD. #History

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