#Gandhara

William Dalrymple

DalrympleWill

Some favourite masterpieces of early Buddhist art. Over the last week I have been researching the diffusion of early Buddhism. Here are some favourites I dug out from my travels.1.The

Jin Xu

xujnx

In 710, a monk called Baolong ("Treasure Prosperity") from Tokharistan (N Afghanistan) commissioned a Buddhist niche at Longmen near the eastern capital of the Tang empire. In 2014, the epitaph

Huzaifa.

MHuzaifaNizam

Lesser Known Fact: Of the many portions of the grandeur of Buddhist heritage that Pakistan boasts of, one is reserved for Padmasambhava of Swat; One of the most revered figures

Afghan Historians

AfghanHistorian

#Kanishka I was, the greatest, and certainly the most famous, of the #Kushan kings. He is known, from the combined testimony of the literary, epigraphic, and numismatic sources, to have

Joseph T Noony

JoeAgneya

Around 2000 BCE two explosions happened in India, the PIE homeland-In Gandhara, Atharvan Zaratusthra declared: 'There is only one God & his name is Asura'In the Kuru Kingdom, Tura Kavaseya

agamshastra

truejainology

Significance of Diwali in Jain DharmaDiwali also called as (deepawali/dipalika)is one the most important festival for jains, as it marks the Nirvāṇa(liberation) of last tirthankara of jainism lord mahaviraThread on

Skyesins

skyesins

THREAD ON HINDU-BUDHIST SHARES OF SOME AREAS ON ISLAMIC INVASION@tweetsofshino @porbotialora @56Dtweets @1. Pushkalavati-KabulistanCutoff Date-971Budhist-60Hindu- 15Zoroastrians- 252. Zaranj-Makran(East Balochistan)Cutoff Date-710Budhist- 4

Jalebi 🌈

artqueerjalebi

The lost written scripts of Pakistan - a threadBetween 1868 to 1947, the official written script for Sindhi was the Khudabadi script. Khudabadi script was in widespread use between 16th

Curwen Ares Rolinson

huntersrolinson

This Is #GangSteppe - a fine 2nd century AD Kushan depiction of Lord Skanda, from Gandhara in present-day Afghanistan/Pakistan. Something I find pretty cool about this particular rendering, is that

Huzaifa.

MHuzaifaNizam

Lesser Known Fact: On account of Christmas tomorrow, do you know Pakistan had a small Christian community 1800 years ago? The disciple of Jesus St. Thomas also visited here and

Coffeefueled

EponymousBreeze

Look closely at this brick created ~ 300-250 BC & you can see Greek writing. It was found at Ai-Khanoum, on the Northern border of Afghanistan. Ai-Khanoum was a primary

Ormuzd Bunukan

OrmuzdB

Tajiks and PashtunsThe Largest Remnants of the Ancient East IranicsA thread on their genetics*Explanation: The lower the number on the left is, the closer the listed population is to the

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Elf_of_Shiva_

The Gupta period marks beginning of Indian temple architecture, as temples in the form of concrete structures were constructed in northern India for the first time. These temples were made

True Indology

TIinExile

Thread:Here is a fascinating map of all the places of ancient India as mentioned in Mahābhārata. This map is put on display in Purana Qila, which is the ancient Indraprastha

Huzaifa.

MHuzaifaNizam

A list of threads and articles that I’ve done on the lesser known parts of our history. Rai Dynasty.https://twitter.com/____MHN____/status/1256279832264085506 Ancient Peshawar.https://twitter.com/____mhn____/status/1251863183507193857 Ind

Huzaifa.

MHuzaifaNizam

Lesser Known Fact: During Alexander’s campaign in the Indus Region, the Macedonians faced a number of tribes along the length of the region, all of which fought the Greeks till

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