Heródoto, 2019 This paper deals with the historiographical representation of Hellenistic Bactria in Barthold Niebuhr’s Lectures on Ancient History, based on lectures given at Bonn University in the 1820’s and published in German and English in the 1850’s.
Fábio Augusto Morales +1 more
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A Partial Decipherment of the Unknown Kushan Script*
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 2, Page 293-329, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Several dozen inscriptions in an unknown writing system have been discovered in an area stretching geographically from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to southern Afghanistan. Most inscriptions can be dated to the period from the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century CE, yet all attempts at decipherment have so far been unsuccessful.
Svenja Bonmann +3 more
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A Fight to Reclaim the Central Asian Frontier. The Seleucid and Parthian Rivalry in the 230s BC [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2021 This article investigates the initial conflict between the Parthians and Seleucids in the late 230s BC that established a much longer period of rivalry between these opposing forces. Arsaces I founded the independent Parthian kingdom in northeastern Iran
Nikolaus Leo Overtoom
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In the shadow of the Wall. Hellenistic settlement in the Baysun and Kugitang piedmonts [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2021 This article brings an up -to -date evaluation of the archaeological research in the core of the Bactro -Sogdian borderlands, i.e., in the vicinity of the Darband Wall, Baysun District, southern Uzbekistan, including the most recent results of the ...
Ladislav Stančo
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A MULTI-SCALAR PHOTOGRAMMETRIC RECORDING APPROACH IN TERMEZ (UZBEKISTAN) [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2019 This paper presents the preliminary results obtained during the 3D recording campaign carried out in 2018 by the Spanish-Uzbek IPAEB mission in the archaeological site of Termez (southern border of Uzbekistan).
J. Angás +5 more
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The Iron Gate and its environs in the Hellenistic period. Preliminary report for archaeological research in the Baysun District (South Uzbekistan), Season 2019 [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2022 is report summarizes the starting points, methods and results of the archaeological research of the Czech-Uzbek team investigating the Hellenistic selements in the vicinity of Darband, in the upper reaches of the Sherabad Darya, in the Baysun District ...
Ladislav Stančo +8 more
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Herodotus on Bactria between Achaemenid Mobility and Alexander’s campaign. Some reflections [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2021 Thanks to a recent monographic study by Chiara Matarese we are now able to understand more clearly both the reasons and the goals of a phenomenon, that of the so-called ‘deportations’ characteristic of the Achaemenid empire.
Marco Ferrario
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Paleodietary Analysis of Human Remains from a Hellenistic‐Roman Cemetery at Camihöyük, Turkey
Journal of Anthropology, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013 The presence of copper, zinc, magnesium, iron, lead, molybdenum, manganese and nickel was discovered on 22 human ribs in a Hellenistic‐Roman cemetery located in the ancient city of Camihöyük, Turkey. The levels of each element found in the males were higher than those in females, except iron.
Yusuf İzci +10 more
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Flipping the Coin: Alexander the Great’s Bactrian-Sogdian Expedition from a Local Perspective [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2021 The present paper examines written sources pertinent to Alexander the Great’s expedition in Bactria and Sogdiana. It focuses on the impact of the military campaigns on the local inhabitants in four interconnected fields of human activity (military ...
Michael Iliakis
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On the letter þ in the Greek alphabet used in Bactria [PDF]
, 2015 Este trabajo revisa las diferentes teorías sobre el origen del grafema þ con valor silbante en el alfabeto griego utilizado por la dinastía kushán en los territorios de la Bactria helenística a partir del siglo I d.
Redondo Reyes, Pedro
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