The Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC) is the modern archaeological designation for a particular Middle Bronze Age civilisation of southern...
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political limits of Bactria stretched far beyond the geographic frame of the Bactrian plain. The Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC, also known...
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history of Margiana prior to the Achaemenid conquest. It is considered part of a Bronze Age civilisation, the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (short...
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at Namazga-Depe. This Bronze Age culture is called the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex. The Kulli culture, similar to that of the Indus Valley...
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Substratum in Vedic Sanskrit (section Language of the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC))
source lay in Central Asia and could be associated with the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC). Another lost language is that of the Indus Valley...
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Gonur Depe (category Archaeological sites in Turkmenistan)
settlement. It is the "capital" or major settlement of the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC). The site was discovered by Greek-Russian archaeologist...
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Dzun- garia Tarim_Basin Khwarezm Ferghana Transoxiana (Sogdia) Zhetysu Bactria Margiana Samarkand Bukhara Khiva Kokand Tashkent Merv Balkh Central Asia is...
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Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (redirect from Greco-Bactria)
Βασιλεία τῆς Βακτριανῆς, romanized: Basileía tês Baktrianês, lit. 'Kingdom of Bactria') was a Greek state of the Hellenistic period located in Central Asia....
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mortars used to prepare soma in Zoroastrian temples in the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex. He said that the vessels have revealed residues and seed...
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the area of Bactria and Sogdiana in the 2nd-1st century BC, where they had displaced the Sakas, who moved further south. Archaeological structures are...
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Ancient history of Afghanistan (category Archaeological sites in Afghanistan)
centuries if not millennia. Much of the archaeological data comes from the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC and Indus Valley civilization) that...
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Yaz culture (category Archaeological cultures of Central Asia)
Depe, near Baýramaly, Turkmenistan) was an early Iron Age culture of Margiana, Bactria and Sogdia (c. 1500–500 BC, or c. 1500–330 BC). It emerges at the...
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was first developed during the 3rd millennium BC in the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC) to the west of the Pamir mountains, but it is unclear...
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History of Afghanistan (section Bactria–Margiana)
1500 BCE. (For further detail see Indo-Iranians.) The Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex became prominent between 2200 and 1700 BCE (approximately)...
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farmers is also known from further east, including from the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex and the Harappan/Indus Valley Civilisation. Caucasus hunter-gatherers...
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Sintashta culture (category Archaeological cultures of Central Asia)
Sintashta metal was destined for export to the cities of the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC) in Central Asia. The metal trade between Sintashta...
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History of Central Asia (category Archaeology of Central Asia)
societies arose in the more humid areas of Central Asia. The Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex of the early 2nd millennium BC was the first sedentary...
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Alchon Huns (section Invasion of Bactria (370 CE))
Alchon were preceded by the Kidarites and succeeded by the Hephthalites in Bactria and the Nezak Huns in the Hindu Kush. The names of the Alchon kings are...
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At this time the Hephthalites held the Tarim Basin , Fergana, Sogdia, Bactria and Merv, with the Persians at approximately their present border. Khosrow...
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Merv (redirect from Antiochia Margiana)
3rd millennium BC and have associated the area culturally with the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex. The geography of the Zend-Avesta (commentaries on the...
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Tepe Yemshi Tepe Alexandria Prophthasia Aq Kupruk Asqalan Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex Buddhas of Bamiyan Chakhil-i-Ghoundi Stupa Darra-e Kur...
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Karakum Desert in 1976. The culture came to be known as the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex. Viktor Sarianidi was born on September 23, 1929, in Tashkent...
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culture (c. 1800–1500 BCE). Indo-Aryans moved into the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (c. 2400–1600 BCE) and spread to the Levant (Mitanni),...
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Xiongnu (section Archaeology)
Davydova, Anthonina & Minyaev Sergey. The complex of archaeological sites near Dureny village. In: Archaeological sites of the Xiongnu, vol. 5. St Petersburg...
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Otrar (redirect from Archaeological sites of Otrar oasis)
AND MANAGEMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND EARTHEN STRUCTURES AND SITES". Retrieved November 29, 2005. Pachkalov, Alexander. Archaeological Sources: The Chaghadaid...
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Andronovo culture (category Archaeological cultures of Central Asia)
Central Asia, some of them very close to settlements of Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex in the south. This pottery is called Incised Coarse Ware...
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contains the entirety of the Qur'an (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, NEP27). Unlike the two Seljuk Qur'ans...
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culture Afanasievo culture Sintashta culture Vakhsh culture Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex Saka Andronovo culture Tagar culture Uyuk culture Pazyryk...
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Tokhara Yabghus took over in 625. The Imperial Hephthalites, based in Bactria, expanded eastwards to the Tarim Basin, westwards to Sogdia and southwards...
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