...This chapter discusses the computer graphic (CG) reconstruction of the ancient city of Ai Khanum. The CG reconstruction project was initiated by a Japanese television producer and the completed images showed the picture of Ai Khanum as a town during the middle of the second century BC, which...

... of Persia and Babylon alike. Ultimately, they laid the groundwork for new Iranian kingship. Achaemenid royal identity and topographies of power Ai Khanum “Babylonocentric” views of Seleucids Ctesiphon cuneiform literacy nationalism nationalistic distortions of scholarship Oxus Temple Parthia Parthian...

...This chapter examines the history of the establishment of cities in Bactria. It explains that the creation of cities in Bactria is represented by Ai Khanum for the Hellenistic period and Termez for the Great Kushans. These two exceptional cities were deliberately created to integrate an ancient...