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    The BactriaMargiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC) is the modern archaeological designation for a particular Middle Bronze Age civilisation of southern...
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    political limits of Bactria stretched far beyond the geographic frame of the Bactrian plain. The BactriaMargiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC, also known...
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    history of Margiana prior to the Achaemenid conquest. It is considered part of a Bronze Age civilisation, the BactriaMargiana Archaeological Complex (short...
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    The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom or simply Greco-Bactria was a Hellenistic-era Greek state, and along with the Indo-Greek Kingdom, the easternmost part of the...
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    at Namazga-Depe. This Bronze Age culture is called the BactriaMargiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC). The Kulli culture, similar to that of the Indus...
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  • source lay in Central Asia and could be associated with the BactriaMargiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC). Another lost language is that of the Indus Valley...
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    Gonur Depe (category Archaeological sites in Turkmenistan)
    settlement. It is the "capital" or major settlement of the BactriaMargiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC). The site was discovered by Greek-Russian archaeologist...
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    Dzun- garia Tarim_Basin Khwarezm Ferghana Transoxiana (Sogdia) Zhetysu Bactria Margiana Samarkand Bukhara Khiva Kokand Tashkent Merv Balkh Central Asia is...
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  • mortars used to prepare soma in Zoroastrian temples in the BactriaMargiana Archaeological Complex. He said that the vessels have revealed residues and seed...
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    the area of Bactria and Sogdiana in the 2nd-1st century BC, where they had displaced the Sakas, who moved further south. Archaeological structures are...
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    Ancient history of Afghanistan (category Archaeological sites in Afghanistan)
    civilization of southern Central Asia, also known as the BactriaMargiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC). The civilization's urban phase or Integration Era...
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    Alchon were preceded by the Kidarites and succeeded by the Hephthalites in Bactria and the Nezak Huns in the Hindu Kush. The names of the Alchon kings are...
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    1500 BCE. (For further detail see Indo-Iranians.) The Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex became prominent between 2200 and 1700 BCE (approximately)...
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    History of Central Asia (category Archaeology of Central Asia)
    societies arose in the more humid areas of Central Asia. The Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex of the early 2nd millennium BC was the first sedentary...
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    was first developed during the 3rd millennium BC in the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC) to the west of the Pamir mountains, but it is unclear...
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    culture (c. 1800–1500 BCE). Indo-Aryans moved into the BactriaMargiana Archaeological Complex (c. 2400–1600 BCE) and spread to the Levant (Mitanni),...
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    Sintashta culture (category Archaeological cultures of Central Asia)
    Sintashta metal was destined for export to the cities of the BactriaMargiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC) in Central Asia. The metal trade between Sintashta...
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  • At this time the Hephthalites held the Tarim Basin , Fergana, Sogdia, Bactria and Merv, with the Persians at approximately their present border. Khosrow...
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  • culture Afanasievo culture Sintashta culture Vakhsh culture BactriaMargiana Archaeological Complex Saka Andronovo culture Tagar culture Uyuk culture Pazyryk...
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  • culture Afanasievo culture Sintashta culture Vakhsh culture BactriaMargiana Archaeological Complex Saka Andronovo culture Tagar culture Uyuk culture Pazyryk...
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    Yuezhi (section Bactria)
    Valley by the Wusun and migrated southward to Sogdia and later settled in Bactria. The Greater Yuezhi have consequently often been identified with peoples...
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  • Karakum Desert in 1976. The culture came to be known as the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex. Viktor Sarianidi was born on September 23, 1929, in Tashkent...
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  • BMAC may refer to: BactriaMargiana Archaeological Complex Brattleboro Museum and Art Center Bacolod-Murcia Milling Company Bluegrass Music Association...
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    Merv (redirect from Antiochia Margiana)
    3rd millennium BC and have associated the area culturally with the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex. The geography of the Zend-Avesta (commentaries on the...
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  • contains the entirety of the Qur'an (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, NEP27). Unlike the two Seljuk Qur'ans...
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    the southern part like Sri Lanka and the Maldives through and after a complex process of migration, assimilation of other peoples and language shift...
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  • Tokhara Yabghus took over in 625. The Imperial Hephthalites, based in Bactria, expanded eastwards to the Tarim Basin, westwards to Sogdia and southwards...
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    and was in contact with the rest of Central Asia, including Sogdia and Bactria, and thus also with the cultures of South Asia, Iran, and the coastal areas...
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    AND MANAGEMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND EARTHEN STRUCTURES AND SITES". Retrieved November 29, 2005. Pachkalov, Alexander. Archaeological Sources: The Chaghadaid...
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  • Xiongnu (section Archaeology)
    Davydova, Anthonina & Minyaev Sergey. The complex of archaeological sites near Dureny village. In: Archaeological sites of the Xiongnu, vol. 5. St Petersburg...
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