Mehwar
By TOLOnews
MEHWAR: Nancy Dupree Dies In Kabul
The legendary Nancy Dupree, a historian and archaeologist, who dedicated most of her life to preserving Afghanistan’s history died on Saturday night in a Kabul hospital.
According to sources Dupree had been ill for a while.
Born in 1927 in India to American parents, Dupree first came to Afghanistan in 1962 as a diplomat’s wife. Several years later she met Louis Dupree, a renowned archaeologist and scholar of Afghan culture and history.
In this episode of Mehwar, host Massoud Malik discusses the topic with Abdullah Ahmadi, a civil society activist.