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Journal articles on the topic "Kushan Empire"

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Sinisi, Fabrizio. "Exchanges in Royal Imagery across the Iranian World, 3rd Century BC – 3rd Century AD." Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 24, no. 1-2 (2018): 155–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700577-12341329.

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AbstractThe period between the 3rd century BC and the 3rd century AD saw the establishment of two supra-regional states in the Iranian world, first the Arsacid and then the Kushan Empire. The patterns of imperial imagery elaborated by the Arsacids became the reference and were adopted by many of the successive dynasties, starting with the Kushan themselves. Chorasmia was exposed to such influences, and the coin series of its first kings show the interplay between local features and elements coming from both Arsacid Parthia and the Kushan Empire.

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Yu., Tan, Berdimuradov A., Khasanov M., and Wang Ji. "Main Results of Archaeological Work in the Surkhandarya River Basin in Uzbekistan." Teoriya i praktika arkheologicheskikh issledovaniy 34, no. 4 (2022): 191–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.14258/tpai(2022)34(4).-11.

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Archaeological excavations in the Surkhandarya River Basin show that the nomadic graves of the Rabat necropolis located in the foothill hilly areas of Northern Bactria belong to the second half of the 1st c. BCE — the fi rst half of the 2nd c. CE. This is probably a site of the great Yuezhi. Above-ground burials in naus-type crypts dating from the same period were found on the ruins of the settlement, near the flat part of the Surkhandarya valley, most likely belong to the Yuezhi before the formation of the Kushan Empire. The two types of graves, differing in their form and burial rite, locati

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Bhat, Rashid Manzoor. "An Analytical Study of the Kushan Rule in Kashmir." Journal of Image Processing and Intelligent Remote Sensing, no. 24 (June 2, 2022): 9–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.55529/jipirs.24.9.14.

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Kanishka's reign was clearly a time of unprecedented prosperity for Kashmir. There are numerous Kushan art treasures with Buddhist themes scattered throughout the valley, which proves this. The only people who can get to some of these places even now are intrepid explorers. The large number of Kanishka's coins that have been found so far in Kashmir proves this. Vasishka is also known as Vajheshka in records from the time, and it is likely that he was known by this name in Kashmir, which was called Juska until the time of Kalhana. This is another important sign that Kashmir became a famous plac

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Bhat, Rashid Manzoor. "An Analytical Study of the Kushan Rule in Kashmir." June- July 2022, no. 24 (July 29, 2022): 9–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.55529/jpps.24.9.14.

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Kanishka's reign was clearly a time of unprecedented prosperity for Kashmir. There are numerous Kushan art treasures with Buddhist themes scattered throughout the valley, which proves this. The only people who can get to some of these places even now are intrepid explorers. The large number of Kanishka's coins that have been found so far in Kashmir proves this. Vasishka is also known as Vajheshka in records from the time, and it is likely that he was known by this name in Kashmir, which was called Juska until the time of Kalhana. This is another important sign that Kashmir became a famous plac

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Denisenko, V. L., E. A. Filatov, and V. A. Lyamina. "Kushan Settlement Complexes in the Kashmir Valley." Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology 23, no. 10 (2024): 30–42. https://doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2024-23-10-30-42.

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To date, more than 60 Kushan settlement monuments have been discovered in the Kashmir Valley, however systematic archaeological work has been carried out on only three, and the rest of the monuments are known only as the result of lifting material. The main problem is the low level of knowledge of the territory. However, the Kashmir Valley has occupied an important strategic position along the Great Indian and Great Silk Trade Routes for centuries. As a result of the Yuezhi/Kushans, who paved the way from the northwestern borders of China to the western part of Central Asia, trade routes were

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Vacca, Alison. "Bahl Šahastan in the land of the K‘ušans: Medieval Armenian memories of Balkh as an Arsacid capital." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 84, no. 1 (2021): 19–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x21000033.

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AbstractThis paper explores the medieval Armenian understanding of the city of Balkh as a capital of the Arsacid Empire. Medieval Armenian sources employ four strategies of remembrance: scriptural geography, genealogy, folk etymology, and origin stories. These strategies invest the city of Balkh as the source of power of both Armenian royalty and nobility, through their connections to the Great Arsacids. There are two main themes in the descriptions of Balkh. First, the Arsacids of Balkh consistently decimated Sasanian armies in ways that the Armenian Arsacids could not emulate. Second, Balkh

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Liu, Qianjia. "Cultural Embracement and Incorporation: The Analysis of Kanishka Coins." Communications in Humanities Research 29, no. 1 (2024): 225–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/29/20230753.

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This paper aims to discuss the political intention of Kanishka through the coins circulated during his reign and the historical context of the Kushan empire. Although there are studies discussing Kanishkas effort to promote Mahayana Buddhism, there is insufficient literature that comprehensively relates Kanishka's religious beliefs to the political means and context of the era and reveals the complexity of Kanishkas intention. Hence, this work synthesizes and discusses the reasons for the unprecedented appearance of Buddhist elements in the Kanishka coin through Kanishka's support for Buddhism

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Nair, Vishak Ratheesh. "Retracing the Permanence of Buddhism during the Kushan Empire and its Influence on the Silk Road." International Journal of Science and Social Science Research 2, no. 4 (2025): 173–78. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14963750.

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The Kushan Empire (1st– mid 3rd century CE) had played a significant role in the development and consolidation of Buddhism, facilitating its spread over Central Asia and the Silk Road. The Empire had supported Buddhist institutions and encouraged the syncretic development of Buddhist literature, Art and Theology under emperors like Kanishka. This paper examines the resilience of Buddhism throughout the Kushan era and its extensive impact on the Silk Road. It explores the evolution of Mahayana Buddhism, the impact of Greco-Buddhist Art on religious iconography and the role of Buddhist mon

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Ullah, Irfan, Muhammad Akram Soomro, and Mudassar Zulfiqar. "A Review of Archaeological Reports and Literature on the Gandhara Sculpture Collection of the Royal Ontario Museum." Academic Journal of Social Sciences (AJSS ) 4, no. 3 (2020): 377–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.54692/ajss.2020.04031212.

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This review paper focuses on a forty-three-piece collection of Gandhara sculpture in the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada. Although individual pieces of Gandhara sculpture are widely known to scholars, much of the collection of the Gandhara sculpture of the Royal Ontario Museum is unknown to scholars. In this paper, these sculptures have been described and analysed as a collection. The paper is organised on Gandhara ancient history, physical geography, and the history of the Buddha image in ancient subcontinent Pakistan in South Asia. Emphasis is placed on the era of the Kushan Empire f

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Shustova, A. M. "Eurasian ideas of Yu. N. Roerich." Orientalistica 5, no. 3 (2022): 557–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.31696/2618-7043-2022-5-3-557-572.

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The article deals with the contribution by Yurii Nikolaevich Roerich (1902–1960) to Eurasianism, the original trend in Russian philosophical thought. In thisregard his contribution to the nomadic studies is of particular importance. Thanks to his efforts, these studies became a separate branch of general history. Like other Eurasianists Roerich considered the world of ancient nomads as a cultural entity. In particular, he stressed its specific features, such as the importance of the animal style art, epic lore and the military culture. He drew the scholars' attention to the Indo-Europeans, the

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Books on the topic "Kushan Empire"

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Mukherjee, Bratindra Nath. The rise and fall of the Kushāṇa Empire. Firma KLM, 1988.

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Kia, Mehrdad. Persian Empire. ABC-CLIO, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216980636.

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This well-balanced reference on ancient Persia demonstrates the region's contributions to the growth and development of human civilization from the 7th century BCE through the fall of the Persian Sasanian Empire in 651CE. Knowledge of ancient Persia is often gleaned from the writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans—two civilizations that viewed the Persians as enemies. This one-of-a-kind reference provides unbiased coverage of the cultural history of the Persian Empire, examining the Median, Achaemenid, Parthian, Kushan, and Sasanian dynasties and tracing the development and maturation of Ira

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Kia, Mehrdad. The Persian Empire. ABC-CLIO, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216980629.

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This well-balanced reference on ancient Persia demonstrates the region's contributions to the growth and development of human civilization from the 7th century BCE through the fall of the Persian Sasanian Empire in 651CE. Knowledge of ancient Persia is often gleaned from the writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans—two civilizations that viewed the Persians as enemies. This one-of-a-kind reference provides unbiased coverage of the cultural history of the Persian Empire, examining the Median, Achaemenid, Parthian, Kushan, and Sasanian dynasties and tracing the development and maturation of Ira

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Adrych, Philippa, Robert Bracey, Dominic Dalglish, Stefanie Lenk, and Rachel Wood. Images of Mithra. Edited by Jas Elsner. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198792536.001.0001.

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Images of Mithra begins with the seemingly simple question: what’s in a name? With a history of use extending back to Vedic texts of the second millennium BC, derivations of the name Mithra appear in the Roman Empire, across Sasanian Persia, and in the Kushan Empire of southern Afghanistan and northern India during the first millennium AD. Even today, this name has a place in Yazidi and Zoroastrian religion. But what connection have Mihr in Persia, Miiro in Kushan Bactria, and Mithras in the Roman Empire to one another? Over the course of the volume, specialists in the material culture of thes

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Adrych, Philippa, Robert Bracey, Dominic Dalglish, Stefanie Lenk, and Rachel Wood. Identifications. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198792536.003.0005.

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Chapter 5 responds to the previous chapter by looking at the complications that surround a very clearly labelled image of Mithra. This image appears on coins minted in Bactria, a region in the Kushan Empire that spanned parts of modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northern India from the early first century AD to the early third century AD. On these coins we find a youthful figure with a halo identified as ‘Miiro’, who is offering a blessing for the king, Kanishka. The public nature of these coins is contrasted with less-accessible depictions of the god found in sanctuaries across Bactria. T

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Ball, Warwick. Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199277582.001.0001.

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Since its publication in 1982, the Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan has become the main reference work for the archaeology of Afghanistan, and the standard sites and monuments record for the region; archaeological sites are now referred to under their Gazetteer catalogue number as routine in academic literature, and the volume has become a key text for developing research in the area. This revised and updated edition has been significantly expanded to incorporate new field-work and discoveries, as well as older field-work more recently published, and presents new cases of synthesis and

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The rise of Mahāsena: The transformation of Skanda-Karttikeya in North india from the Kuṣāṇa to Gupta empires. Brill, 2012.

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Emberling, Geoff, and Bruce Beyer Williams, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190496272.001.0001.

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The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia presents fifty-five studies by specialists in the archaeology and history of a large region in Africa, centered on the Middle Nile from Aswan to the confluence of the two Niles, extending from the Red Sea to the modern western borders of Sudan and Egypt. The volume is divided into three parts, the first dealing with the historiographical background and environment, the second, largest part tracing the careers of cultures, people, states, and empires from the Paleolithic to the early modern period, and the third, presenting topics interest in industry, socie

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Book chapters on the topic "Kushan Empire"

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Rezakhani, Khodadad. "The Kushan Empire." In Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien. Studies in Universal and Cultural History. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-34003-2_12.

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Wiesehöfer, Josef, and Kai Ruffing. "The End of the Kushan Empire." In Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien. Studies in Universal and Cultural History. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-36876-0_11.

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Hancock, James F. "Silk route connections." In Spices, scents and silk: catalysts of world trade. CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789249743.0008.

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Abstract This chapter elaborates the landscape of political power and Silk trade in the Middle East. It consists of eleven subchapters which are about the empires of the Middle East, Roman intrusions into the Middle East, Palmyra as the greatest of the Middle Eastern trading centres, the power of Zenobia, Kushans take the centre of the silk routes, Kushan Connections, Parthia's control of the Terminus, Sasanians taking over, ebbs and flows of the silk route, plague that slowed the trade, and lastly, silk trade after 400 ce.

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Abazov, Rafis. "Parthian Empire and the Kushans." In The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Central Asia. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230610903_9.

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Benjamin, Craig. "The Kushan Empire." In The Oxford World History of Empire. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197532768.003.0011.

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The Kushan Empire remains one of the least known of all ancient empires. Yet between ca. 50 and ca. 250 CE the Kushans dominated the political, cultural, and economic landscape of a vast region of Inner Eurasia, including extensive parts of Central, East, and South Asia. Along with their direct political and military control of this enormous realm, the veritable “crossroads of Eurasia,” the Kushans also exerted significant influence upon much of ancient Eurasia by playing a crucial role in facilitating the extraordinary levels of cross-cultural exchange that characterize the first Silk Roads E

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Beckwith, Christopher I. "Vihāras in the Kushan Empire." In The Limits of Empire in Ancient Afghanistan. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv15vwk2q.9.

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Kia, Ardi. "5 Satrapy of Bakhtaran (Bactra) and Kushan Empire." In Central Asian Cultures, Arts, and Architecture. Lexington Books, 2015. https://doi.org/10.5771/9780739199282-33.

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Vorderstrasse, Tasha. "The Limits of the Kushan Empire in the Tarim Basin." In The Limits of Empire in Ancient Afghanistan. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv15vwk2q.10.

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Bracey, Robert. "The Limits of Kushan Power and the Limits of Evidence." In The Limits of Empire in Ancient Afghanistan. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv15vwk2q.8.

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RAPIN, CLAUDE. "Nomads and the Shaping of Central Asia: from the Early Iron Age to the Kushan period." In After Alexander: Central Asia before Islam. British Academy, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197263846.003.0003.

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This chapter examines the role of the nomads in shaping the history of Central Asia during the period from the early Iron Age to the rule of the Kushan Empire. This study is based on the archaeological and chronological framework provided for the middle Zerafshan Valley by the site of Koktepe. The findings suggest that the nomads are a constant factor in the history of the steppe belt and of all the adjacent southern lands, and that they may have played an important role in the renewal of cultures and in the development of international trade.

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Conference papers on the topic "Kushan Empire"

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Aca, Mehmet. "A READING OF HEROISM THROUGH BABUR." In The Impact of Zahir Ad-Din Muhammad Bobur’s Literary Legacy on the Advancement of Eastern Statehood and Culture. Alisher Navoi' Tashkent state university of Uzbek language and literature, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.52773/bobur.conf.2023.25.09/ygda7085.

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Babur, as the fifth-generation descendant of might Tamerlane, was enthroned in Fergana when he was twelve years old, after the death of Omar Sheikh Mirza. Babur’s reign had dire conditions so that he would struggle to rule freely. Babur would inherit Tamerlane’s crumbling state which struggles with chaos. On top of this, Timurids would be besieged from all sides by their foes. At such a time, Babur would feel the need of protecting his realm and reviving it. Though, occurring power imbalances between Huseyn Baykara, Mahmud Mirza and Sheybani Khan, Babur’s illnesses and betrayals would make Bab

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