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Archaeologists discover layers of Indo-Greek city in Swat
Dawn News ^ | Sunday, June 26, 2016 | Fazal Khaliq

Posted on 06/26/2016 6:51:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Archaeologists excavate Indo-Greek and Saka-Parthian structures at Bazira, Swat. -- Dawn photo Indo-Greek coins discovered during the recent excavation at Bazira, Barikot, Swat. Courtesy Italian Archaeological Mission in Swat Indo-Greek coins discovered during the recent excavation at Bazira, Barikot, Swat. Courtesy Italian Archaeological Mission in Swat Terracotta baroque female figurine, circa 3rd-2nd BC. Courtesy Italian Archaeological Mission in Swat Indo-Greek coins discovered during the recent excavation at Bazira, Barikot, Swat. Courtesy Italian Archaeological Mission in Swat
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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: alexanderthegreat; godsgravesglyphs; greece; greeks; india; pakistan; swat
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To: SunkenCiv

IIRC, Big Al did not want to stop but his army refused to go any further. Not the first time his army “went on strike” but his time the army really meant it. “Enough! Lead us back to Greece (Macedonia)”. Big Al reluctantly agreed and then choose the hardest possible route (thru the desert) to punish his army for there refusal to continue.


21 posted on 06/26/2016 8:08:56 PM PDT by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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To: SunkenCiv

Alexander was there.


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)
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To: SunkenCiv

Just to be clear, Augustus Pater on the coin is in caps (as are all the letters).

I know lower-case came in later.


23 posted on 06/26/2016 8:19:27 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: SunkenCiv

rofl!!! !I feel better!


24 posted on 06/26/2016 8:26:49 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: reed13k

It means the Greeks who ruled over local Indians after Alexander.


25 posted on 06/26/2016 9:12:29 PM PDT by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said. youtube.com/watch?v=HZA9k7WAuiY)
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To: SunkenCiv

Spell check is working great but autocorrect is my enema.


26 posted on 06/26/2016 9:14:20 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: Paladin2

Cemetary H

Hmmmm....


27 posted on 06/26/2016 10:06:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Didn’t know that Ruth was that old? He was born only a few miles away from where I was born in Baltimore, Md. We could have been friends but he was a lot older. Apparently a lot, lot older than me.


28 posted on 06/27/2016 12:43:51 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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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
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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)
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To: BenLurkin; Paladin2
Cemetary H

Hmmmm....


The locals knew to avoid the Pet Sematary


31 posted on 06/27/2016 4:27:05 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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To: FredZarguna; SunkenCiv; dp0622

Auto-completion is just plain wicket.
No guessing what it might do nexus.

;-)


32 posted on 06/27/2016 5:23:47 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs: Recrowning Baseball's Greatest Slugger
33 posted on 06/27/2016 6:03:00 AM PDT by Pelham (Obama, the most unAmerican President in history)
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To: Covenantor

also see the Harappan dancing girl:

http://www.google.com/search?ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&source=hp&q=Harappan+dancing+girl&gbv=1
http://www.google.com/search?ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&source=hp&q=Harappan+dancing+girl&gbv=1&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&tbm=isch
http://www.google.com/search?q=Harappan+dancing+girl+site:freerepublic.com/focus/&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&source=hp&gbv=1

http://hindutemplearchitectureandsculpture-filiault.wikispaces.com/file/view/dancing_girl.jpg/176956301/800x644/dancing_girl.jpg

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1831376/posts

more general:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2351107/posts?page=15#15
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3015811/posts?page=17#17


34 posted on 06/27/2016 6:50:43 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: BroJoeK

Even if we try to straighten it out, it could come out croquet.


35 posted on 06/27/2016 6:51:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: dp0622

;’)


36 posted on 06/27/2016 6:53:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: jpsb

That’s one version of the story — they had a bridgehead, no one wanted to cross it, because it turned out that Aristotle had been dead wrong about the size of the world, and they had weeks of marching just to reach the next adversary, and it was weeks beyond that to finally reach the sea again. One of the men stepped forward and suggested that Alexander had proved his point, avenged the Hellenic world on the Persians, that it was time to set a limit. Alexander had omens taken, they were unfavorable, so he set up a marker that said, “this is where Alexander stopped” (no longer exists, or long lost, or the story is BS). My guess is, this was a later legend to explain his decision, which was probably made without counsel.

He set his men to work building ships; most of the army and camp followers went aboard, he led the rest of his army along the banks of the Indus, they had to fight their way through a few more times, but emerged at the Erythraean Sea (Indian Ocean, also the Red Sea, Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba, the Persian Gulf, the Bay of Bengal, etc); the ships went ahead to Mesopotamia, most of the land army went back via a common route, while Alexander led a smaller part of his forces back overland through the desert (again, according to surviving sources), part of his continuing survey of his conquest, thinking about colonization prospects.

Michael Wood’s “Footsteps...” documentary is entertaining, but relies too much on Curtius, who wasn’t really writing a history of Alexander, and lived in imperial Roman times, and made up atrocities and stupidities he attributed to Alexander. Wood also refused to say the word “Israel”, and took every anachronistic modern fairy tale about Alexander at face value.


37 posted on 06/27/2016 7:13:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: MUDDOG

The guy who struck the coins was hard of hearing. ;’)


38 posted on 06/27/2016 7:15:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: MUDDOG

The use of base-metal coins for contests and promos was common back then, those were the days... there used to be a bunch of aluminum ones around here that Sunoco gave out for some sweepstakes or other, late 60s, perhaps early 70s.


39 posted on 06/27/2016 7:18:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: FredZarguna

It can be an irrigation.


40 posted on 06/27/2016 8:30:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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