The Aral Sea basin in Central Asia and its major rivers, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, were
the center of advanced river civilizations, and a principal hub of the Silk Roads over a period …

2011). It contains more than two hundred additional items of bibliography, some, but by no
means all, dating to the past two years. Many new publications appeared or were made …

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 …

Southern Central Asia witnessed widespread expansion in urbanism and exchange,
between roughly 2200 and 1500 BC, fostering a new cultural florescence, sometimes …

In The Oasis of Bukhara: Population, Depopulation and Settlement Evolution, Rocco Rante,
archaeologist at the Louvre Museum, presents the results of a large-scale and ambitious …

In this article we re-visit hypotheses about the changing social and environmental
landscapes in southern Central Asia during the late Holocene, specifically giving attention to …

Abstract During the Final Bronze Age (around 3750/3700 BP), the proto-urban sedentary
cultural entity in southern Central Asia—known as the Oxus civilization or Bactria-Margiana …

In the deltaic termination of the Zeravshan River (southeastern Uzbekistan) and the Balkh
River (northern Afghanistan), changes in the river courses took place during the Neolithic …

This groundbreaking, five-volume series offers a comprehensive, fully illustrated history of
Egypt and Western Asia (the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran), from the emergence …