A pawn in the Great Game: the sad story of Charles Masson

Edmund Richardson describes how an archaeologist, discovering priceless treasures near Kabul, was forced to spy for the EIC and was ultimately ruined

From magazine issue: 22 May 2021

G.T. Vigne’s sketch of the plains of Bagram and Kohistan mountains, 1836. Credit: Getty Images

issue 22 May 2021

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