Alexander's letter to his mother regarding Afghanistan and it's tibes and people
Alexander's letter to his mother regarding Afghanistan and it's tibes and people
The invading "Hephthalites" are known elsewhere as the "White Huns."
Without his preliminary work there is in fact nothing for anyone else to study. Philology is a branch of scholarship which some regard as old-fashioned; but I am proud to call myself a philologist and glad to have had this opportunity to describe to you a body of material which so well demonstrates both the necessity and the rewards of philological research.
© N. Sims-Williams 1997
The great revolution which launched man onto the path of civilization-and eventually into the Atomic Age-took place dur-ing the Neolithic period when he learned to plant crops and domesticate animals and thus began to control his food supply.
Interestingly, the Book of Genesis in the Bible records first and early on after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, both domestication of sheep/animals (Abel); as well as agriculture (Cain)
A series of Bronze Age mounds given the general designa-tion of (D)ashli greatly expanded the picture of Bronze Age life ca. 1500 B.c. north-west of Balkh. Dl is a large plastered mud-brick fort-qala surrounded by farming settlements.
Shangri-La, the mystical mountain fastness and magnet for some unusual beliefs (including being the target of a Nazi expedition), but has it been found?
He said the murals were executed in exquisite detail.