A picture is worth, well, you know.
1 posted on
06/26/2016 6:51:21 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
So when they say Indo-Greek do they mean Alexander the Great Indo-Greek or before that?
3 posted on
06/26/2016 7:03:11 PM PDT by
reed13k
To: SunkenCiv
5 posted on
06/26/2016 7:17:29 PM PDT by
Paladin2
(auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
To: SunkenCiv
I’ve got a replica Roman bronze coin that looks like the first coin in the picture, down to the corrosion.
I think it came in the mail from Readers Digest in the 1960s, in an ad for some book they were pushing.
6 posted on
06/26/2016 7:23:40 PM PDT by
MUDDOG
To: SunkenCiv
Alexander (The Great) got around quite a bit back in the day.
10 posted on
06/26/2016 7:36:00 PM PDT by
jpsb
(Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
To: SunkenCiv
Birthplace of the Sultan of Swat, Babe Ruth?
To: SunkenCiv
18 posted on
06/26/2016 7:44:11 PM PDT by
Paladin2
(auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
To: SunkenCiv
22 posted on
06/26/2016 8:16:52 PM PDT by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: SunkenCiv
Where exactly is Swat? In the article, some names suggest India, while one quote mentions Pakistan and a FReeper posted a detail map that gave no information as to it's regional location. I looked elsewhere and found a map that supplies that missing information.
Turns out that it's more than 1,000 miles into the interior, beyond Afghanistan and near China.
29 posted on
06/27/2016 3:20:26 AM PDT by
drpix
To: SunkenCiv
Interesting that they identify the partial figurine as female. Given the location of the site and incised lines it seems to be more of a head wrap very similar to those still worn in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The representation of the eye, huge and puffed out relative to the size of the nose seems more like a badly beaten face. As does the lopsided slack swollen mouth.
Terracotta baroque female figurine, circa 3rd-2nd BC. ─ Courtesy Italian Archaeological Mission in Swat
Facial representation very similar to the booking photo of the homosexual babysitter molester surprised by the male child's father.
Pretty bold assertion by the archaeologists...baring other evidence
30 posted on
06/27/2016 3:59:45 AM PDT by
Covenantor
(Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
To: SunkenCiv
These finds are clearly before George Herman Ruth was the Sultan of Swat.
43 posted on
06/28/2016 4:23:07 PM PDT by
AmericanVictory
(Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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