Ancient Greek kingdoms existed in China, and there was a significant spread of Hellenism in Asia, including in Japan and ...

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 ...

Once part of the Achaemenid Empire, Sogdiana and Bactria had only ever been loosely governed. The arrival of Alexander the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once a thriving city during the Kushan Empire and a place of great religious significance for Buddhists, Simhapura suddenly ...

Most of the sites identified are in northern Afghanistan's Balkh region, which more than two millennia ago was the heartland of Bactria. It was one of the richest and most populous regions of ...

After Barsine, Alexander was married three times: first to Roxana of Bactria, then to Stateira, the daughter of a Persian king, and finally to Parysatis, whose father was also ruled Persia.

Several videos on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube are urgently warning people that packages of ramen noodles are being recalled due to a deadly bacteria found in the products.One social media post ...

It penetrated to Kandahar and Kabul, then to Bactria. Tibetan Buddhism also had its essential origin in Kashmir…” According to the Buddhist tradition, the Kushan ruler Kanishka (127-151 CE ...