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    The Chakhil-i-Ghoundi Stupa, also code-named "Stupa C1", is a small limestone stupa from the Chakhil-i-Ghoundi monastery, at the archeological site of...
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    roof. The Chakhil-i-Ghoundi monastery is dated to the 4th-5th century CE. It is built around the Chakhil-i-Ghoundi Stupa, a small limestone stupa. Most of...
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    5th century CE. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Butkara. Chakhil-i-Ghoundi stupa "De l'Indus a l'Oxus: archaeologie de l'Asie Centrale", Pierfrancesco...
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    or Ysyk-Köl (Kyrgyz: Ысык-Көл, [ɯsɯk kœl], "Warm Lake") is an endorheic (i.e., without outflow) saline lake in the western Tianshan Mountains in eastern...
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    A reconstituted flight of stairs with stair risers, from the Chakhil-i-Ghoundi Stupa A Gandharan Buner relief of a stair riser with devotees (1st–2nd...
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    it. A turning point in the conflict between the two was the Battle of Sar-i Pul in the spring of 1501, which resulted in Babur's defeat. In 1505 Muhammad...
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    Arsacid Empire. It is traditionally assumed to have been founded by Arsaces I (reigned c. 250 BC–211 BC) and was reputedly the royal residence of the Parthian...
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    Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex Buddhas of Bamiyan Chakhil-i-Ghoundi Stupa Darra-e Kur Dasht-e Nawar Dokhtar-i-Noshirwan Firozkoh Gawhar Shad Mausoleum Haji...
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    Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex Buddhas of Bamiyan Chakhil-i-Ghoundi Stupa Darra-e Kur Dasht-e Nawar Dokhtar-i-Noshirwan Firozkoh Gawhar Shad Mausoleum Haji...
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    Museum, St. Petersburg). Oglakhty is considered as "the key site of stage I of the Tashtyk culture." From the early 20th century, various dates have been...
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    Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex Buddhas of Bamiyan Chakhil-i-Ghoundi Stupa Darra-e Kur Dasht-e Nawar Dokhtar-i-Noshirwan Firozkoh Gawhar Shad Mausoleum Haji...
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    site of hadda, chakhil-i-ghoundi monastery, II-III century Afghanistan, stairway of stupas, from the site of hadda, chakhil-i-ghoundi monastery, II-III...
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    Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex Buddhas of Bamiyan Chakhil-i-Ghoundi Stupa Darra-e Kur Dasht-e Nawar Dokhtar-i-Noshirwan Firozkoh Gawhar Shad Mausoleum Haji...
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    Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex Buddhas of Bamiyan Chakhil-i-Ghoundi Stupa Darra-e Kur Dasht-e Nawar Dokhtar-i-Noshirwan Firozkoh Gawhar Shad Mausoleum Haji...
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    animal motifs. Such specifically Scythian features as zoomorphic junctures, i.e. the addition of a part of one animal to the body of another, are rarer...
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    acres) complex of Buddhist monasteries, homes, over 400 Buddha statues, stupas and market areas. The site contains artifacts from the Bronze Age, and some...
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    Hulagash (Bayan-Ulgii aimag, Mongolia)". Vestnik Arheologii, Antropologii I Etnografii. 1 (48): 78–95. doi:10.20874/2071-0437-2020-48-1-8. S2CID 213820119...
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    Muhammad Haidar (2008). A History of the Moghuls of Central Asia: The Tarikh-I-Rashidi. Cosimo. ISBN 978-1-60520-150-4. Gallagher, Louis J., ed. (1953)....
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    (represented by ZAA001 and Olon Dov individuals)." Modern Chinese Religion I (2 vol.set): Song-Liao-Jin-Yuan (960-1368 AD). BRILL. 8 December 2014. pp...
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    The Dharmarajika Stupa (W.Panjabi & Urdu: دھرم راجک اسٹوپا), also referred to as the Great Stupa of Taxila, is a Buddhist stupa near Taxila, Pakistan....
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    Turkestana") (Москва) 1927 Н. А. Халфин; Россия и Ханства Средней Азии ("Rossiya i Hanstva Sredney Azii") (Москва) 1974 Encyclopædia Iranica: Central Asia in...
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    The Kanishka Stupa ( Sanskrit :कनिष्क स्तूप ) was a monumental stupa established by the Kushan king Kanishka during the 2nd century CE in today's Shaji-ki-Dheri...
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  • Shah I and initially took part in wars of succession against his three brothers and a nephew: Mahmud I, Barkiyaruq, Malik Shah II and Muhammad I Tapar...
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    affixed to Gushana (Kushana), i.e. Gushana-vaṃśa (Kushan dynasty) appears on a dedicatory inscription at Manikiala stupa. It began about 127 CE. For example...
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    number 3200 of this Royal necropolis, a horse skeleton was found in period I, dated around 2200 BCE along with a four-wheeled wooden wagon with bronze...
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    city and suburbs. The walls are threefold. Within are Buddhist temples and stupas numbering a thousand. The people are engaged in agriculture and husbandry...
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    Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex Buddhas of Bamiyan Chakhil-i-Ghoundi Stupa Darra-e Kur Dasht-e Nawar Dokhtar-i-Noshirwan Firozkoh Gawhar Shad Mausoleum Haji...
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    stupa and some administrative buildings and was occupied for a long time. It is usually thought to be the city of Loulan. L.B. – A site with stupas at...
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    twenty-second and the eighteenth-seventeenth centuries BCE". Grigoriev 2021, p. 27: "[I]f the entire sampling of Sintashta dates falls within the range of 2200–1650...
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    This was extremely deplorable. That is why I ordered its destruction. Had they come for humanitarian work, I would have never ordered the Buddha's destruction...
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