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There is no archaeological evidence of Achaemind control over modern-day Pakistan as not a single archaeological site that can be positively identified with the Achaemenid Empire has been found anywhere in Pakistan, including at Taxila.
Pakistan has two major river dams: the Tarbela Dam on the Indus, near the early Buddhist site at Taxila, and the Mangla Dam on the Jhelum, where Punjab borders Azad Kashmir built as part of the Indus Basin Project.
For example, Taxila was an early centre of Vedic learning, possible from the 6th century BC or earlier ; the Platonic Academy founded in Athens in the 4th century BC seems to have included theological themes in its subject matter ; the Chinese Taixue delivered Confucian teaching from the 2nd century BC ; the School of Nisibis was a centre of Christian learning from the 4th century AD ; Nalanda in India was a site of Buddhist higher learning from at least the 5th or 6th century AD ; and the Moroccan University of Al-Karaouine was a centre of Islamic learning from the 10th century, as was Al-Azhar University in Cairo.
In 1913, he began the excavations at Taxila, which lasted for twenty years.
His main capital was at Purushpura ( Peshawar in present day northwestern Pakistan ) with regional capitals at the location of the modern city of Taxila in Pakistan, Begram in Afghanistan and Mathura in India.
Aristobulus of Cassandreia, a Greek historian who traveled to India with the expedition of Alexander the Great, recorded the practice of sati at the city of Taxila.
Chanakya ( or Kautilya ), the Maurya Emperor Chandragupta and the Ayurvedic healer Charaka studied at Taxila.
The kingdom was ruled from capitals at Kapisa ( Bagram ), Pushkalavati ( Charsadda ), Taxila, Purushapura ( Peshawar ) and in its final days from Udabhandapura ( Hund ) on the Indus.
Its evidence has been discovered in the hilly regions of Swat and Dir, and even at Taxila.
According to Greek chroniclers, at the time of Alexander's invasion hyparchs Kubhesha, Hastin ( Astes ), and Ambhi ( Omphes ) were ruling the lower Kabul valley, Puskalavati ( modern Charasadda ), and Taxila, respectively, while Ashvajit ( chief of Aspasoi / Aspasii or Ashvayanas ) and Assakenos ( chief of Assakenoi or Ashvakayanas, both being parts of the Kambojas ) ruled the upper Kabul valley and Mazaga / Massaga ( Mashkavati ), respectively.
The cities of Taxila ( Takshasila ) at Sirsukh and Peshawar were built.
A large Greek city built by Demetrius and rebuilt by Menander has been excavated at the archaeological site of Sirkap near Taxila, where Buddhist stupas were standing side-by-side with Hindu and Greek temples, indicating religious tolerance and syncretism.
The remains of the ancient city Taxila, and many ornaments have been found in this regions which suggests that centered at Harappa in Punjab became a center of early civilization from around 3300 BC.
* University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila at Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan
The Hellenistic temple with Ionic order | Ionic columns at Jandial, Taxila, is usually interpreted as a Zoroastrian fire temple from the period of the Indo-Parthians.
probably referring to Sirkap, and explains that the Indo-Parthian king of Taxila, named Phraotes, received a Greek education at the court of his farther and spoke Greek fluently:
It is usually considered that most of the excavations that were done at Sirkap near Taxila by John Marshall relate to Indo-Parthian layers, although more recent scholarship sometimes relates them to the Indo-Greeks instead.
Saint Thomas was brought before King Gundaphar ( Gondophares ) at his capital, Taxila.
One example of this Indo-Greek art dates to the 1st century BC, the juvenile figure of Harpocrates excavated at Taxila.
Main archaeological artifacts from the Indo-Greek strata at Taxila.
Antialcidas Nikephoros " the Victorious " was a Western Indo-Greek king of the Eucratid Dynasty, who reigned from his capital at Taxila.
The Harmarajika stupa ( Taxila ) and Butkarha ( Swat ) stupa at Jamal Garha were among the earliest Gandhara stupas.

at and ancient
Jury, judge and executioner were riding the range in the form of a single unknown figure that could materialize anywhere, at any time, to dispense an ancient brand of justice the men of the new West had believed long outdated.
Many of us may even be secretly relieved at having a plausible excuse to delegate ancient civic responsibilities to a new bureaucracy of experts.
As Sandburg said at the time: `` It is as ancient as the medieval European ballads brought to the Appalachian Mountains, it is as modern as skyscrapers, the Volstead Act, and the latest oil well gusher ''.
An ancient Rolls-Royce, as shiningly impressive as the day it came off the ship, was parked at the curb.
He stared at the clerk who sat at a scarred and ancient fumed-oak desk stuffing envelopes.
Richard left America with his clothes, his biwa and his image of Acala and, on the freighter which took him to Japan, he plucked at the biwa, trying to make the sounds he wrought resemble an ancient Japanese tune he had once heard.
While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.
In the video game Assassin's Creed II, Minerva appears in an ancient vault underneath the Vatican at the end of the game.
Abydos ( Greek: Άβυδος ), an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia Minor, situated at Nara Burnu or Nagara Point on the best harbor on the Asiatic shore of the Hellespont.
A revelation of the ancient myths follows, but at the end the palace and the people disappear in a clap of thunder and Gylfi finds himself alone on the plain, having been deluded ( Section 59 ).
He places them also between the Naristi ( Varisti ), whose location at the very edge of the ancient Black Forest is well known, and the Marcomanni and Quadi.
Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.
Agate is one of the most common materials used in the art of hardstone carving, and has been recovered at a number of ancient sites, indicating its widespread use in the ancient world ; for example, archaeological recovery at the Knossos site on Crete illustrates its role in Bronze Age Minoan culture.
The ancient sources say she poisoned Claudius on October 13, 54 with a plate of deadly mushrooms at a banquet, thus enabling Nero to quickly take the throne as emperor.
His verses have not come down to us through a manuscript tradition-generations of scribes copying an author's collected works, such as delivered intact into the modern age four entire books of Pindar's odes-but haphazardly, in quotes from ancient scholars and commentators whose own works have chanced to survive, and in the tattered remnants of papyri uncovered from an ancient rubbish pile at Oxyrhynchus and other locations in Egypt: sources that modern scholars have studied and correlated exhaustively, adding little by little to the world's store of poetic fragments.
Actium ( Greek: Ἄκτιον ) was the ancient name of a promontory of western Greece in northwestern Acarnania, at the mouth of the Sinus Ambracius ( Gulf of Arta ) opposite Nicopolis, built by Augustus on the north side of the strait.
From the Medieval Arabic king lists of both African states, allegedly copied from earlier lists in ancient Near Eastern languages it appears that the state founders claimed to be deportees of the Assyrian empire who had fled from Syria and Samaria after the defeat of the Egyptian-Assyrian army at Carchemish in 605 BCE.
However, there is controversy about whether they were genuinely recorded at the time or merely ascribed to ancient rulers by posterity.

at and center
`` Dead center at three hundred yards, that coroner said ''!!
But a writer who has a taste for irony and who sees incest in all its modern dimensions can let his imagination work on the disturbing joke in the incest myth, the joke that strikes right at the center of man's humanness.
Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.
Earth, being at the center of the universe, would have the same shape as the latter ; ;
Copernicus, by placing the sun at the center of the planetary universe, was able to reduce the number of epicycles from eighty-three to seventeen.
It is the strategy of blockade, therefore, that is suddenly at the center of attention of administration officials, Members of Congress, officers in the Pentagon.
This is one of the best-tempered Tar Heels ever at the center.
To obtain clear impression of mold, press clay gently but firmly into mold cavity, starting at center and working to outer edges.
Spread article on flat surface to required width before measuring length at center.
Place sleeve seam at center underarm and center of sleeve cap at shoulder seam.
A body of water is usually the center of interest at parks which attract the greatest picnic and camping use.
Also, she lived in continual fear of finding a white worm curled up in a neat, mean little heap at the white center of the radish.
The measured brightness temperature is a good approximation to the brightness temperature at the center of the lunar disk because of the narrow antenna beam and because the temperature distribution over the central portion of the moon's disk is nearly uniform.
However, the possible absence of a center of symmetry not only moves the hydrogen atom off Af, but also allows the oxygen atoms to become nonequivalent, with Af at Af and Af at Af ( space group Af ), where Af represents the oxygens on one side of the Af layers and Af those on the other side.
Obviously hydrophobic ( oleophilic ) substances such as greases, oils, or particles having a greasy or oily surface are more at home in the center of a micelle than in the aqueous phase.
The direction in which the arrow points shows how the maturity level of the growth center was changed at Completion from the level at Onset.
The nuclei of these fibers, as is shown in Figures 3 and 4, showed remarkable proliferation and were closely approximated, forming a chainlike structure at either the center or the periphery of the fiber.
For it is clear that the total number of ordinary intersections of C and Af must be even ( otherwise, starting in the interior of C, Af could not finally return to the interior ), and the center of rotation at T is the argument of the function, not a value.
Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.

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