It is thought the hoard was buried by Scythian or Chinese nomads at the beginning of the Christian era ... Bactrian gold. Excavations begin at Tillya Tepe, led by Viktor Sarianidi. The artifacts ...

9, No. 1, Jan., 1877 Further Note on a Bactrian Pali Inscript... Further Note on a Bactrian Pali Inscription and the Samvat Era This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section.

Eucratides I was a monarch of the Hellenistic period who ruled the Greco-Bactrian kingdom, located in present-day Afghanistan, between 172 and 145 B.C. Coming from the Diodotid dynasty, which had been ...