The first anthropomorphic representations of Buddha were developed between the second century BC and the first century AD in the Indo-Greek Kingdom, after the spread of Buddhism to the area. The ...

This Buddha was likely once displayed in a prominent location, ... (nowadays Pakistan/Afghanistan) where the arts of the Indian subcontinent merged with Hellenistic art, ...

As early as Homer, more than 2,500 years ago, Greek mythology explored the idea of automatons and self-moving devices. By the third century B.C., engineers in Hellenistic Alexandria, in Egypt ...

The ancient Indo-Hellenistic heritage of the country could go the way of ... Taliban militants in neighbouring Afghanistan blew up two 1,500-year-old Bamiyan Buddha statues in defiance of ...

Stewart is coeditor of the fourth volume, From Apollo to Buddha: Hellenistic Art and the Silk Road Arts, which deals with the dissemination and fusion of art, and which according to him, "traces ...

As early as Homer, more than 2,500 years ago, Greek mythology explored the idea of automatons and self-moving devices. By the third century BC, engineers in Hellenistic Alexandria, in Egypt, were ...

Archaeologists and experts sound the alarm. The ancient Indo-Hellenistic heritage of the country could go the way of the Bamiyan Buddhas, in neighbouring Afghanistan. Digging and research have stopped ...