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Today, India, despite global scrutiny, has maintained a principled partnership with Iran, balancing its energy and strategic ...

In the 3rd century BC, the far eastern Seleucid provinces tore free, and a Greek ruled kingdom in Bactria became one of the richest states on Earth, thriving on the trade routes between Greece, India, ...

A third-century B.C.E. plaque unearthed at Ai-Khanoum in Afghanistan depicts the mother goddess Cybele in a chariot driven by Nike, the Greek goddess of victory. Thierry Ollivier / Musée Guimet via ...

Designers are giving museum worthy pieces a new life. By Jill Newman Rebecca Rau was skimming an auction house’s catalog last year when a bronze amulet from the ancient Central Asian region of Bactria ...

Along a rocky mountain ridge in southern Tajikistan, two steep cliffs jut above the sloping Lyangurt Valley, where the rural village of Torbulok sits. Although the area is often dry, water ...

Erroneously known as the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan in fact served as the battlefield of the world. Long before the name Afghanistan appeared in written record, the region formed one of the ...

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For centuries, Bactria, a region shared by modern Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan - was part of the Hellenistic world. Conquered by Alexander the Great, Bactria became the heart of a powerful ...

A radiocarbon study reveals that the Darband Wall in Uzbekistan was built in the 3rd century BCE—half a century earlier than previously believed—and suggests a crucial strategic shift centuries later ...

In the Boysun region of southeastern Uzbekistan, a joint Russian-Uzbek archaeological expedition recently achieved an historic first. They have just finished their initial round of excavations at an ...