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    The Pul-i-Darunteh Aramaic inscription, also called Aramaic inscription of Lampaka, is an inscription on a rock in the valley of Laghman ("Lampaka" being...
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    the Aramaic Inscription of Taxila, followed in 1932 by the Pul-i-Darunteh Aramaic inscription. In 1958 the famous Bilingual Kandahar Inscription, written...
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    Aramaic Inscription of Taxila, and in 1932 another inscription in Aramaic was discovered in the Laghman Valley in Pul-i-Darunteh, the Pul-i-Darunteh Aramaic...
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  • Thumbnail for Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions
    The Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, also known as Northwest Semitic inscriptions, are the primary extra-Biblical source for understanding of the society...
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  • at Pul-i-Darunteh, then in 1963 an inscription in "Indo-Aramaic" alternating the Indian language and the Aramaic language, but using only the Aramaic script...
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    Rock Inscription, also known as the Kandahar Edict of Ashoka and less commonly as the Chehel Zina Edict, is an inscription in the Greek and Aramaic languages...
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    smaller rivers such as (from west to east) the Shirin Tagab River, Sari Pul River, Balkh River and Kunduz River have been used for irrigation for millennia...
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    A turning point in the conflict between the two was the Battle of Sar-i Pul in the spring of 1501, which resulted in Babur's defeat. In 1505 Muhammad...
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    Kabul hoard Aramaic Inscription of Laghman Kandahar Aramaic inscription Pul-i-Darunteh Aramaic inscription Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription Kandahar Greek...
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  • Khagan inscription, 2nd side: 15: From sons of Ten Arrows to wives, see this. Erected stone inscriptions… Tonyukuk inscription, main side, 19: I reached...
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    Major Pillar Edicts (category Indian inscriptions)
    Nandangarh, Rampurva (Champaran), and fragments of these in Aramaic (Kandahar, Edict No.7 and Pul-i-Darunteh, Edict No.5 or No.7 in Afghanistan) However many pillars...
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    the 4th or 3rd century BC. A notable item is a silver cup bearing an inscription. The finds are on display in Astana. It is associated with the Saka peoples...
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    twenty-second and the eighteenth-seventeenth centuries BCE". Grigoriev 2021, p. 27: "[I]f the entire sampling of Sintashta dates falls within the range of 2200–1650...
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  • his master Gumushtegin Bilge-Beg in 1073 by the Seljuq sultan Malik-Shah I to retake territory in northern Greater Khorasan that the Ghaznavids had seized...
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    This inscription does not use another language in parallel, contrary to the famous Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription in Greek language and Aramaic, discovered...
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  • Shihuai" in the above inscription, it can be simply seen that the Khitan originated from the Xianbei. Since the excavated inscription on memorial tablet...
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    Chachestan. — Shapur I's inscription at the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht, Naqsh-e Rostam This is also confirmed by the Rag-i-Bibi inscription in modern Afghanistan...
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    Σκύθαι Skúthai). The Achaemenid inscriptions initially listed a single group of Sakā. However, following Darius I's campaign of 520 to 518 BC against...
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  • victory against Sayf, who was shortly captured and crucified at Pul-i Yak Taq. Baha al-Din Sam I, another brother of Sayf, set out to avenge the death of his...
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    Ысык-Көл, romanized: Ysyk-Köl, lit. 'warm lake', [ɯsɯk kœl]) is an endorheic (i.e., without outflow) saline lake in the western Tianshan Mountains in eastern...
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    Kabul hoard Aramaic Inscription of Laghman Kandahar Aramaic inscription Pul-i-Darunteh Aramaic inscription Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription Kandahar Greek...
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    burnt to the ground in about 145 BC. The last Greco-Bactrian king, Heliocles I, retreated and moved his capital to the Kabul Valley. In about 140–130 BC...
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    V.; Khartanovich, Valeriy I.; Moiseyev, Vyacheslav; Grebenyuk, Pavel S.; Fedorchenko, Alexander Yu; Lebedintsev, Alexander I.; Slobodin, Sergey B.; Malyarchuk...
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    Arsacid Empire. It is traditionally assumed to have been founded by Arsaces I (reigned c. 250 BC–211 BC) and was reputedly the royal residence of the Parthian...
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  • attested in part by inscriptions naming merchant owners, but most surviving objects are nonetheless attributed by their inscriptions to sultans, royal household...
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    Central Asia, taking Khwarazm in 1505. At nearly the same time, Shah Ismail I was building a powerful Shiite state in Persia. The two consequently clashed...
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    texts. The language of Kucha, as evidenced by surviving manuscripts and inscriptions, was Kuśiññe (Kushine) also known as Tocharian B or West Tocharian, an...
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    Kabul hoard Aramaic Inscription of Laghman Kandahar Aramaic inscription Pul-i-Darunteh Aramaic inscription Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription Kandahar Greek...
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    also in Arabic literature al-Kariya al-Hadisa and in Persian literature Deh-i Hay; presently it is a Central Asian ghost town Jankent. The state was ruled...
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    animal motifs. Such specifically Scythian features as zoomorphic junctures, i.e. the addition of a part of one animal to the body of another, are rarer...
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