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The coins and shrine — known as a stupa — are thought to date from the time of the Kushan Empire, a mainly Buddhist polity that ruled the region from about the second century B.C. until the ...
Mac Dowall’s research into ancient coins of the Indian subcontinent, notably of the Indo-Greek Kingdom (c 200 BC-c 10 AD) , the Kushan Empire (c 30- c 375 AD), and the Shahis, a dynasty who ...
These coins belonged to Kushan Period dating back to 2 to 5 Century AD, he said. “The present discovery is remarkable after 93 years and its credit goes to Mohenjodaro team,” he said.
Kushan. Hormizd. Two coins, obv. and rev. K-SC, p1.II, 15a--b National Museum of Asian Art. Object ... See more items in Ernst Herzfeld Papers Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 4: Photographic Files / ...
The ancient Kushan script carved into rock in the Almosi Gorge, Tajikistan. Researchers have managed to partially decode an ancient script that has puzzled scholars for around 70 years.
Script discovered carved in caves, marked on bowls, and found on clay pots in Central Asia has baffled linguists since it’s discovery more than 70 years ago.But this “unknown Kushan script ...
Researchers have partially deciphered the "unknown Kushan script" — a writing system that has puzzled linguists since it was first found in the 1950s. The researchers decoded the ancient text ...