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Tepe Maranjan ("Maranjan Hill"), previously known as Siyah Sang (Persian: سياه سنگ, "Blackstone"), is a small hill in southeastern Kabul, Afghanistan.
King Nadir Shah was assassinated in 1933, the time-honoured way that most Afghan leaders meet their fate. His monumental tomb sits overlooking east Kabul at Teppe Maranjan. It has suffered considerably in war.
In a suburb of Kabul, east of the tomb of King Nadir Shah and south of the road to Jalalabad and Peshawar, the monastery of Tepe Maranjan was excavated by Jean Carl in 1933. The site was surveyed again by Gérard Fussman in 1976 and more recently by Zemarialaē Tarzi and the members of the Afghan Institute of Archaeology.
Aug 6, 2024 · Recreation Area to be Made on Kabul's Maranjan Hill. Some residents of the capital who have come to Maranjan Hill for recreation welcomed the news of the creation of a large recreational area on this hill.
- Shabnam Amini
Mar 1, 2016 · On the bare face of a mountain framing the valley is etched a single word in large letters: Allah. Tepe Naranj is a hill in the middle of this busy plain, its slopes home to the remnants of a small but important monastery from Afghanistan’s rich Buddhist past.
The last King and Queen of Afghanistan are buried here on Maranjan Hill, in a family mausoleum overlooking East Kabul. A Buddhist monastery complex, of which almost nothing remains today. Finds include sculpture, frescos, refined pottery and a hoard of 368 Sassanian silver drachmas, dating from 383 to 388 AD.
TAPE MARANJAN. Tepe Maranjan stands on a ridge that was the site of several Buddhist religious complexes, east of Kabul’s old city. Excavations by French archaeologists in 1933 revealed a fort-like structure that was thought to date from the 4th century AD, over which a small stone stupa was superimposed in the 6th or 7th century AD.
