Among Zoroastrian burial items, there is a camel-shaped zoomorphic OSTADON lying there. It was found…
The Kushan kingdom is one of the greatest states of antiquity.
In the 1st and early 3rd century AD, along with such giants as the Roman Empire, the Parthian kingdom and Han dynasty China, it dominated a vast territory of the civilized world, occupying a crucial position between the civilizations of the West and the Far East.
At the height of its prosperity, under King Kanishka, the Kushan kingdom included much of the Indian subcontinent, present-day Pakistan, Afghanistan, South Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The kingdom builders, the Yuezhi, emerged from the hinterland of Inner Asia, but Kushan statehood itself included elements of the political structure, administrative management, titulature, social hierarchy, religion, material and spiritual culture borrowed from their forerunners in the region, including the Hellenes, the Bactrians and the peoples of Hindustan. It was, actually, a multi-ethnic statehood in which tolerance had statewide significance.
Following their conquest of India, the Yuezhi, as evidenced by the Chinese textual sources, have become most rich and prosperous. In the various states [their ruler] is always referred to as “the King of Guishuang” [Kuei-shuang], but the Han, basing themselves upon the old appellation, speak about the ‘Da Yuezhi’ [Ta Yüeh-chih]. The capital of the state was the city of Pataliputra (now Peshawar).
You can learn more about the topic in the book-album "Kushan Kingdom: Dynasties, State, People, Language, Writing System, Religions" (XXXVI volume) from the series "The Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan".
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