Source Mountainous Afghanistan has been a cross roads of Indo-Eurasian trade and conquest since antiquity. Around 1500 BC Vedic Aryans, initiators of Brahmanism, ruled the Northern Afghanistan. They were settled in fertile plains of Bactria (Balkh). These Aryans were subjugated by King Darius I of Persia who invaded Afghan area in 522 BC. In 330… Continue reading Another View on Vedic Afghanistan
Month: March 2001
Taliban Destroy More Pre-Islamic Religious Artifacts
Taliban Destroy More Pre-Islamic Religious Artifacts – March 2001 Buddhist-Hindu complex also demolished in quest to rid Afghanistan of artifacts the Taliban consider false idols. By Kathy Gannon GHAZNI, Afghanistan, March 13 (AP) – At least two weeks before Afghanistan’s supreme ruler ordered all statues in the country destroyed, zealous Taliban soldiers wielding pickaxes hacked… Continue reading Taliban Destroy More Pre-Islamic Religious Artifacts