The periods of architecture of Afghanistan are closely related to the historical periods of material culture, and the division is according to the historical chronology:
Bronze age
Altin-Dilyar-tepe
The epoch of Achaemenids (VI - IV centuries. BC)
Ancient Period (329 BC - the mid. of V century AD.)
- Hellenistic architecture: the epoch of the Alexander the Great (the years of 329-323 BC), Seleucid (the years of 300-250 BC), the Greco-Bactrian kingdom (approximately the years of 250-135 BC)
- Bagram - presumably the ruins the city of Caucasian Alexandria.
- Old Kandahar - the place where the city of Alexandria was located in Arachosia.
- Ay-Khanum - the ruins of the large city, the culltural metropolis of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom.
- Balkh (Bactra) the city walls of the anciant city, the capital of the Bactrian kingdom, the remains of a building.
- Transition: The adaptation of the Hellenistic architecture to the requirements of the new rulers of the country - Tocharians, before the formation of a unified empire of the Great Kushans (approximately 135 BC-ser. I century AD.)
- Ai-Khanum II - round nomadic city on the banks of Panj river.
- Emshi Tepe - round the city of nomads in Balkh province.
- The architecture of the Kushan Empire (mid of First century to the mid III century)
- Surh-Kotal - dynastic temple of the Great Kushans
- Hadda - a large complex of Buddhist monasteries
- Dilberjin - a small town.
- Late antique architecture (III-V cc.)
Early medieval period ( beginning of the V to the VII century).
Muslim architecture
- The pre-Mongol and Mongol period (VII - the end of XIV century).
- The architecture of the epoch of Timur and Timurids (late XIV - early XVI century).
- the Mausoleum of Abu Ali Nasr Pars in Balkh
- Late-medieval architecture (early XVI - 1919)
- Blue Mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif
- Mausoleum of Ahmad Shah Durrani, in Kandahar
The architecture of modern times (1919 - 1978)
The architecture of the time of civil wars (1978 - 2002)
The modern architecture of Afghanistan (from 2002)
