The Achaemenid domination of Central Asia during the 6th to 4th centuries BCE constitutes
one of the most important episodes in Central Asia's history. During the Achaemenid period …

This volume provides a thorough conspectus of the field of Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek
studies, mixing theoretical and historical surveys with critical and thoughtprovoking case …

Today, the Surkhan Darya region represents the southernmost administrative unit of
Uzbekistan, which is from the point of view of physical geography a clearly delimited …

This article brings an up-to-date evaluation of the archaeological research in the core of the
Bactro-Sogdian borderlands, ie, in the vicinity of the Darband Wall, Baysun District, southern …

This work is the second volume of the series publishing the results of the Czech-Uzbek
archaeological expedition in southern Uzbekistan. While the first part was devoted to the …

The proposed study aims to investigate the character of settlement transformation in ancient
Bactria (upper Amu Darya basin) during the period following the conquest of Alexander the …

The sacred landscape of Central Asia consisted of various religions and ritual practices that
grew out of local traditions. The latest archaeological excavations of the Iron Age cultic …

The aim of this chapter is to put forward some reflections on the dynamics behind the
construction of the rural landscape in the Achaemenid satrapy of Bactria following the …

Abstract Hellenistic Central Asia is among the most exoticized areas of study for Classical
and Near Eastern archaeological research due to the discovery of ancient Greek colonies in …

The present article completes a previous work dedicated to the study of literary sources for
the historical reconstruction of the dynamics within the «imperial space»(sensu Lauren …