Dedicating to the BALKAN relatives of Prince Karim Aga Khan, Hunza, Gilgit of Pakistan Coin #4: Bactria, Seleucid, Seleucos I Silver tetradrachm, c. 290 BCE Weight: 16.87 gm., Diam: 26 mm.    Laureate, bearded bust of Zeus right / Athena driving elephant quadriga Greek legend: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY (of King Seleucos) Bactria: Seleucid Seleucos I Silver drachm, c. 290 BCE Weight:4.22 […]

Heliodorus pillar From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The dedication of the Heliodorus pillar was made by Heliodorus, ambassador of the Indo-Greek king Antialcidas (here depicted on one of his coins). The Heliodorus pillar is a stone column that was erected around 110 BCE in central India in Vidisha near modern Besnagar, by Heliodorus, a Greek ambassador of the Indo-Greek king […]

After Alexander’s two years  campaign in India, the Greek power, thus established, gave place in less than 10 years’ time to Indian under the headship of Chandragupta, and later the dynasty of Asoka. Greek influence found its stronghold in Bactria, the modern Balkh, and it is from there that most of the coins of the earlier kings come.   About […]

11.5.09 Αφγανιστάν – Το Ελληνο-Βακτριανό Βασίλειο Ευεργέτες και όχι κατακτητές Γράφει ο Γιώργος Εχέδωρος Έμβλημα του αρχαίου ελληνικού βασιλείου (Αφγανιστάν) Σπουδαία ιστορικά στοιχεία ενός ένδοξου παρελθόντος- πέρα από τις γραπτές πηγές- έχουν καλυφθεί από τη σκόνη του χρόνου. Φυλάχθηκαν μέσα στη γη όπου σιγά –σιγά αναδύονται για να εμπλουτίσουν τις γνώσεις με ξεχωριστά μνημεία, μοναδικούς και σπάνιους ιστορικούς θησαυρούς. Μέρα […]

  SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. Tetradrachm Sale: Nomos 1, Lot: 117. Closing Date: Tuesday, 5 May 2009.   BID Estimate CHF50000  SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. Tetradrachm (17.06 g 3), Susa, circa 304-298/7. Bust of Alexander the Great as Dionysos to right, wearing helmet covered with a panther skin and adorned with a bull’s […]

Ο τάφος του Μ. Αλεξάνδρου στην… Αυστραλία!!!!!! Εξωφρενικοί ισχυρισμοί βλέπουν το φως της δημοσιότητας Ο τάφος του Μεγάλου Αλεξάνδρου βρίσκεται στην… Αυστραλία! Ποιος το λέει αυτό; Τα αυστραλιανά μέσα ενημέρωσης, τα οποία δεν στηρίζουν, όμως, τα δημοσιεύματά τους σε κάποιες έρευνες αρχαιολόγων ή σε άλλα ιστορικά στοιχεία, αλλά σε αφήγηση ενός… ομογενή. Αυτό, βέβαια, δεν εμπόδισε σε τίποτα κάποια αυστραλιανά […]

INDIAN Edicts of Ashoka (250 BCE) An irrefutable evidence of the greek ethnicity of ancient Macedonians comes from the famous “Edicts of Ashoka” (c. 250 BCE) where the Buddhist emperor Ashoka refers to the Greek populations under his rule. The Rock Edicts V and XIII mention the Yonas (or the Greeks) along with the Kambojas and Gandharas as a subject people […]

  [1] Quote: It has been reported to me that it was the rhetorician Isocrates who was responsible for the servitude that the Macedonian imposed on the Persians. For the fame of the speech Panegyricus, which Isocrates delivered to the Greeks, spread to Macedonia, And it was this that first stirred Philip’s animosity towards Asia. When Philip died, the speech […]