After Alexander - The Mysterious Kingdom Of The Greco-Bactrians // Ancient History Documentary

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  @HistoryTime · 5 months ago · pinned

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  @matthewwood4410 · 5 months ago

  Perfect thing to find when your newborn won’t sleep at 2am

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  @almighty5839 · 5 months ago

  Greco Bactrians are such a forgotten part of history in the east and it’s a shame, glad we getting more content. We need one on on Seleucids and Ptolemy empires

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  @brianhildreth9099 · 5 months ago

  Here for the humans! Pete Kelly is one of my favorite ones!

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  @jacobusmarch9524 · 5 months ago

  what an insane and terrifying world we live in that we have to specify this is human made content<br><br>Thanks for everything that you do.

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  @HistorywithCy · 5 months ago

  I know what I&apos;m watching this weekend!

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  @arthurabreu2962 · 5 months ago

  its so refreshing to see an orinal video rather than some AI shit

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  @k_a_bizzle · 5 months ago

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  @Jiggity_Jake · 5 months ago

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  @JenniferinIllinois · 5 months ago

  It&apos;s crazy imagining Greek soldiers in India. &nbsp;And I learned that Kandahar is a translation of Alexandria.

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  @denniskrust2137 · 5 months ago (edited)

  Found the video 1 minute after it posted and it already had 5 Likes. &nbsp;12 minutes in and 84 Likes, 300+ views.<br>Great channel, great creator and loyal followers.

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  @HistoryTime · 5 months ago

  A detailed bibliography of the sources used for this program - <br><br>Secondary Sources - <br>McLaughlin, Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean (2014).<br>McLaughlin, Roman Empire and the Silk Routes (2016).<br>Dalrymple, The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World (2025).<br>Scott, Ancient Worlds: An Epic History of East and West (2017).<br>Reconstructions and Artifacts:<br>Nikonorov, The Armies of Bactria (1997).<br>Shane Wallace, ‘Greek Culture in Afghanistan and India: Old Evidence and New<br>Discoveries’ (2016) pages 205-226.<br>Holt, Thundering Zeus: The Making of Hellenistic Bactria (1999).<br>Holt, Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan (2006).<br>Sidky, The Greek Kingdom of Bactria: From Alexander to Eucratides the Great<br>(2000).<br>Tarn, The Greeks in Bactria and India (1938).<br>Kosmin, The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in the<br>Seleucid Empire (2014).<br>Stoneman, The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks<br>(2021).<br>Jansari, Chandragupta Maurya: The Creation of a National Hero (2023).<br>Olivelle, Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King (2024).<br>Thapar, Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas (2012).<br>Specialist Study and Academic Debate:<br>Mairs, The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World (2020).<br>Mairs, The Hellenistic Far East: Archaeology, Language, and Identity in Greek<br>Central Asia (2016).<br>Mairs, The Archaeology of the Hellenistic Far East: A Survey (2011).<br>Narain, The Indo-Greeks (1962).<br>Cohen, Hellenistic Settlements in the East from Armenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria<br>and India (2013).<br>Vassiliades, The Greeks in India: A Survey in Philosophical Understanding (2000).<br>Chandra, Indo-Greek Jewellery (1979).<br>Esposito, Armies of the Hellenistic States 323 BC to AD 30: History, Organization and Equipment (2019).<br>Richardson, Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City (2021).<br><br>Primary Sources - <br>Strabo, Geography.<br>Plutarch, Life of Alexander.<br>Curtius Rufus, History of Alexander.<br>Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander.<br>Diodorus Siculus, History (Books 17-18).<br>Nagasena, The Questions of King Milinda: Bilingual Edition (Pali / English).<br>Stoneman, Megasthenes&amp;#39; Indica: A New Translation with Commentary (2021).<br>Sima Qian, Shiji.<br>Austin, The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest: A Selection of<br>Ancient Sources in Translation (2006).<br>Casson, The Periplus Maris Erythraei: Text with Introduction, Translation &amp;amp;<br>Commentary (1989).

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