{"id":85786,"date":"2017-09-10T04:08:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T04:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/nancy-dupree-historian-on-afghanistan-passes-away\/"},"modified":"2017-09-10T04:08:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T04:08:18","slug":"nancy-dupree-historian-on-afghanistan-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/nancy-dupree-historian-on-afghanistan-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Dupree, historian on Afghanistan passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"356\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2017\/Sep\/10\/Nancy.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): Nancy Hatch Dupree, a historian, and archaeologist on Afghanistan died at the age of 90 due illness here in Kabul on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Dupree, a well-known American archaeologist, studied and traveled Afghanistan extensively for 67 years. She authored 5 books on Afghanistan and established The Afghanistan Center at Kabul University (ACKU).<\/p>\n<p>She arrived in Afghanistan in 1962 as a diplomat&rsquo;s wife. She later married Louis Dupree, another archeologist. Along with a team of archaeologists and diplomats, she visited Bamyan province. After which she wrote a tourist guidebook on Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Nancy Hatch Dupree, a historian, and archaeologist on Afghanistan died at the age of 90 due illness here in Kabul on Saturday night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-85786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}