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Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan. Volume 2: Letters and Buddhist Texts by Nicholas Sims-Williams is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Bactrian, the ancient language of Afghanistan, was virtually unknown before the recent discovery of more than a hundred leather documents written in Bactrian in a local variant of the Greek alphabet. As well as revealing an important new language of the Indo-European family, these documents shed light on the history and culture of Afghanistan during the 4th to 8th centuries AD, a turbulent period during which power changed hands many times, ending with the Arab conquest and the introduction of Islam. The three volumes of this series provide a comprehensive edition of the texts, with translations, photographs, glossary, and indexes, making this rich material available to linguists and historians alike.

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Author

Nicholas Sims-Williams

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781874780915

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Ancient History, Humanities