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:
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 |
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 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.