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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Persian king, Darius III, fled eastwards to Bactria (Balkh, Afghanistan) in order to rally his forces, but was murdered by his satrap Bessus, who may have been trying to curry favor with ...

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.