The name of an ancient country in Central Asia, Bactria was the home of Iranian-speaking people from about the eighth century BCE and is thought to have been the birthplace of Zoroaster, the prophet of Persian religion. Bactria lay between the Hindu...

Bactria (Bactriana, Bākhtar in Persian, also Bhalika in Arabic and Indian languages, and Ta-Hia in Chinese) was the ancient Greek name of the country between the range of the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya (Oxus); its capital, Bactra or Balhika or Bokhdi...

The iconography of the Bronze Age Oxus Civilization revolves around a hierarchy of male deities and a female deity at the highest rank and middle-aged and younger mortals at the lower ranks. The mythological figures are commonly represented in narrative scenes carved on vases...

Twenty-seven archaeological reports discuss the excavation conducted on three major sites of Ai Khanum in northeast Afghanistan, Butkara I in Swat, Pakistan and Sonkh in Uttar Pradesh, India. These diggings were made to address questions about the origins of early Buddhist art, creation of...