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The Kushan Kingdom was an ancient Central Asian empire that spanned parts of modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northern India from approximately the 1st to 3rd centuries CE. Established by the Yuezhi people, the empire reached its territorial peak under Emperor Kanishka. The Kushans played a sig...
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Highly regarded for Silk Road power, Kanishka, Buddhist patronage, art, and coinage; strong scholarly consensus.
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Ai Khanoum was a Hellenistic city in ancient Bactria, located near the confluence of the Oxus and Kokcha rivers in what is now northeastern Afghanistan. Founded during the period of Greek rule in Central Asia, probably in the third century BCE, it contained buildings that combined Greek architectura...
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