Sheberghan is the capital of Jowzjan Province in Afghanistan. It is in the region historically known as Bactria.
Understand
[edit]The village of Tilia Tepe about 5 km north of town is an important archaeological site; royal burial mounds there yielded over 20,000 golden artifacts believed to be from the 1st century BCE.
Get in
[edit]Sherberghan is on an ancient trade route, part of the Silk Road, connecting Balkh and Herat.
Today, there is a highway, part of an Afghan ring road that connects the country's four largest cities running from Kabul north to Mazar-e-Sharif, west to Herat, south to Kandahar and back to Kabul. Sherberghan is on the Mazar-Herat part of that road.
The city also has an airport.