Bactria, a huge area in todays' Afghanistan, was the eastern edge of the ancient Greek empire, established by Alexander the ...

That Greek art was carried to Bactria after the conquests of Alexander would be a natural and reasonable inference. We already had evidence of this from coins, but that it penetrated as far as the ...

Meaning “golden hill,” Tillya Tepe is located in Bactria, an ancient region located in what is now part of Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. It is thought the hoard was buried by ...

Then there was also another line of passage through India which seems to have had its beginnings in the Greek kingdom of Bactria, one of the Asiatic states founded by Alexander the Great, and a land ...

and Indo-Greeks from Bactria, or Central Asia, who were in power at the time the newly discovered temple was built. “We are now beginning to realize that, in addition to its strategic importance ...

Still another branch route took a more southerly pass through the Pamirs, and went on to Bactria leading to routes through Afghanistan and on to northwestern India. Of the northern routes that ...

Evidence from Tappe Takhchar-Abad and similar sites identified in Bactria to the east suggests an earlier origin for such constructions, possibly dating back to the Achaemenid period. Analysis of ...

Despite not being seen in Alexander: The Making of a God's characters, Roxana of Bactria, the daughter of a Bactrian ...

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Bactria, the Hindu Kush, and the Punjab region of northwest India. Buddhism reached Gandhara as early as the third century B.C.E., and began to flourish in the first century C.E. as Silk Road trade ...

After the great drought disaster, the gradual recovery of precipitation promoted the prosperity of the Bronze Age civilization in Central Asia, marked by the rise of the Bactria-Margiana ...

The theory would then be that speakers of this branch of the Indo-European family tree came out of Central Asia into the Turkmenistan region (Bactria-Margiana complex especially) before 2000 BCE ...