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The written history of Afghanistan ( can be traced back to around BCE when the area was under the Achaemenid Empire , although evidence indicates that an advanced degree of urbanized culture has existed in the land since between and BCE. The Indus Valley Civilisation stretched up to large parts of Afghanistan in the no