Taxila was the capital of Gandhara, an ancient kingdom in northwest India east of the Khyber Pass, which flourished from the sixth century BCE to the fifth century CE. Today Taxila lies in ruins near the modern city of Islamabad in Pakistan, but in its...

For the genus of metalmark butterflies, see Taxila (butterfly). Coordinates: 33°46′45″N, 72°53′15″E Taxila (Urdu: ٹیکسلا, Sanskrit: तक्षशिला Takṣaśilā, Pali:Takkasilā) is an important archaeological site in Pakistan...

Licked off the ground with tongues of steel or crushed into stone floors of these neo-Islamic houses and the uptight slate of roads driven, they cry with tears as big as boulders rolling down their dark cheeks. The umbilicus is cut; the earth's...