Uzbekistan
There are 120 items in Uzbekistan:
Fayaz Tepe, Stupa, inside |
Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a group of courtiers |
Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a seated Buddha |
Fayaz Tepe, Wall painting of Alexander the Great |
Fergana Valley, Bronze cauldron |
Halchayan, Parthian warrior |
Herodotus, bk 1, logos 3
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (c.480-c.429 BCE): Greek researcher, often called the world's first historian. In The Histories, he describes the expansion of the Achaemenid Empire under its kings Cyrus the Great, Cambyses, and Darius I the Great, culminating in Xerxes' expedition to Greece (480 BCE), which met with disaster…Hystaspes (1)
Hystaspes (OP. Vištâspa): name of several noble Persians and Bactrians. One of them is mentioned in the Avesta, the holy book of Zoroastrianism, the Persian religion that was founded by the legendary prophet Zarathustra. Vištâspa, the son of Aurvat-aspa, was the…
The Jaxartes, between Samarkand and Tashkent |
Jaxartes (329 BCE)
Battle of the Jaxartes (August 329 BCE): battle between the Macedonian king Alexander the Great and an army of Central-Asian mounted nomads. It was arguably Alexander's most spectacular battle.Prelude …Jaxartes (Syrdar'ya)
Jaxartes: Greek name of a large river in Central Asia now known as Syrdar'ya. The Jaxartes between Samarkand and Tashkent The Syrdar'ya…Kampyr Tepe
Kampyr Tepe: Macedonian town in Bactria, just north of the river Oxus, founded by Alexander the Great.Founding The houses of Kampyr…