Links To

 

Ancient

 

History of Afghanistan

 

 

Herodotus and the Persian Wars

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/Herodotus/

Passages relating to history of Afghanistan:  3.91; 3.93; 3.94; 3.102; 4.44; 7.66; 7.67; and 7.85

 

http://iranianlanguages.com/indo-european.htm

Indo-European languages spoken in Afghanistan, both extant and extinct.

Sims-Williams --- Bactrian - Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, who is the leading expert of the Sogdian and Bactrian languages, gave a lecture on the disc
http://www.gengo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~hkum/bactrian.html

Indian History Sourcebook: François Bernier: An Account of India ...

... Indian History Sourcebook: François Bernier: An Account of

India and the Great Moghul, 1655 CE. ...
www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/1655bernier.html

 

 

A.D.H. Bivar, Maues At Taxilla:  Problem of His Arrival-- Route and Political Allegiance

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 

Journal of Central Asia, Vol. VII: No. 1, July, 1984

 

 

Parthia Home

Parthia: The Forgotten Empire A Virtual Exhibition This exhibit takes advantage of the National Numismatic Collection's collection of Parthian drachmas in order to illustrate and illuminate a largely forgotten segment of the history of the Middle
http://americanhistory.si.edu/csr/nnc/parthia/frames/parhom.htm

 

 

Silk Road Timeline

From 3500 BC, major events and advances with impact on the silk trade. Most of the ancient hypertext link annotation remains to be done. Also see Silk Road Bibliography

 

 

Scythian
... expansion under Azes II (35 BC-5 AD). The kingdom started to break up after his
reign, eventually becoming absorbed by the Indo-Parthians and Kushans.
users2.ev1.net/~legionary/mainevent/coins/Scythian.html - 3k - Cached - Similar pages

 

 

Chatter - Chicago Coin Club - August, 2000
... spear, Kharosthi legend naming Azes. The Sacaraucae
and Indo-Parthians. The Sacaraucae in eastern Iran ...
www.chicagocoinclub.org/chatter/2000/Aug/ - 30k - Cached - Similar pages

 

 

Nomads
... Bactria. Their westward expansion was probably at this time halted by the Indo-Parthians
who were now pushing down the west flank of Bactria into Indo-Scythia ...
members.tripod.com/great-bulgaria/Central-Asian-Nomads-Unite/ Yu-chi/ - 35k - Cached - Similar pages

 

 

A General History of the Near East, Chapter 6
... divert the Saka raiders into India. The nearest Sakas, the Surens or Indo-Parthians,
became a client kingdom in southeastern Iran and Pakistan; the rest formed ...
xenohistorian.faithweb.com/neareast/ne06.html - 83k - Cached - Similar pages

 

 

VOGELSANG, Willem (2002) The Afghans, Oxford, Blackwell
... annals, suggest that Kujula Kadphises took the Kabul valley from the Indo-Parthians
under Gondophares and his successor, Abdagases, whose coins are also widely ...
www.upf.es/materials/huma/xinamon/virtuals/vogels.htm - 35k - Cached - Similar pages

 

The Scythian Wave

The classical description of the Yu-chi invasion of Bactria runs something like this: The Yu-chi push across the Jaxartes and Oxus into Bactria, displacing in the process those nomadic peoples who had lived on the north side of the two rivers and in Bactria... http://www.keele.ac.uk/socs/ks45/PageHistory/Club/bracey/Kushan/digressions/scythians.htm

 

Brief Guide to Kushan History

http://www.kushan.org/contents.htm

 

NEW LIGHT ON ANCIENT AFGHANISTAN: The Decirpherment of Bactrian.

Nicholas Sims-Williams, Professor of Iranian and Central Asian Studies, School of Oriental and Afrian Studies, University of London., 1997.

 

THE BACTRIAN INSCRIPTION  by W. B.  Henning. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (BSOAS), University of London, Vol XXIII, Part 1, pp.  47-55, 1960.