Women were relegated to secondary roles in Ancient Greece, which is why most queenly names belong to mythology: Jocasta, Leda, Pelops, Gorgophone, Aglaea… A few historical ones could be added, but ...
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 ...
The languages used on money convey a message about the community for which the currency is intended. One of the earliest bilingual coins is this Indo-Greek drachm from around 160 BCE, which features ...
The invasion of Punjab by Alexander the Greek lasted for a very short period. After his army was depleted -- historians believe defeated -- in the battle against Porus or the Puru, his small army ...
"This book provides the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary view of the relationship between the Greeks and Buddhist communities in ancient Bactria and Northwest India, from the conquests of ...
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The Ancient Greeks Who Became Buddhists
When Alexander the Great’s empire reached India, it created a surprising cultural crossroads. Some Greeks living in the Indo-Greek kingdoms embraced Buddhism, blending Greek art with Buddhist ...
Ahmedabad: During the excavation at Vadnagar, which lasted for a decade from 2014 to 2024, one of the finds that surprised the archaeologists was 37 terracotta coin moulds. These were not of local ...
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