Ancient Totem Amulet Charm from Bactria Cicadas (Locusts) were found in the mouths of some burials in China, just over the mountain from Bactria. CONTACT ME WITH QUESTIONS OR FOR INVOICE...
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Part 2 of the proposed routes from the steppes to the Murghab-Amu Darya and Indus Valley regions. This blog does not attempt to discuss the proposed routes traveled by every migratory culture...
http://bactria-margiana.blogspot.com/2015/08/route-to-bactria-pt-2-tracing.html
There are at least three ways of tracing the ancient migration route of the people from the steppes to the oases they found and settled. The three different methods are used by a variety of in...
http://bactria-margiana.blogspot.com/2015/08/tracing-route-to-bactria-part-one.html
One of the most common findings of compartmented copper seals in the ruins of Bactria is a circular form with a cruciform pattern at the center of the open work or solid metal seal. For exampl...
http://bactria-margiana.blogspot.com/2015/08/bactrian-fascination-with-cross-symbol.html
In her close study of the seals and amulets of ancient Bactria in the great Ligabue collection, the results of which she published in her Seals of the Oasis, Syliva Winkelmann carefully classifi...
http://bactria-margiana.blogspot.com/2015/07/principal-styles-of-bactrian-seals-per.html
An example of the cruciform cast copper/bronze stamp seal, a major design in the Bactrian culture: Ancient Bactrian Cruciform Compartmented Seal Dated, Published by Archeologist CONTACT ME ...
http://bactria-margiana.blogspot.com/2015/07/bactrian-bronze-age-cast-metals-and.html
BACTRIAN MACE HEAD WHITE STONE DATING THIRD TO SECOND MILLENN BC An ancient mace head, a Bronze Age weapon CONTACT ME WITH QUESTIONS OR FOR INVOICE through the private message form at ...
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First, I might introduce my own interest in Bactria. It began in the bazaars in Kabul, Afghanistan where my husband and I saw hundreds of obviously ancient artifacts, but we did not know where...
http://bactria-margiana.blogspot.com/2015/07/bactrian-seals-and-amulets-introduction.html
Dr. Victor Sarianidi, his guest and his team of workers at the Gonur Depe excavations are in the picture below. They are sitting on carpets spread on the Kara Kum Desert floor. The brush pil...
http://bactria-margiana.blogspot.com/2015/07/festival-at-margiana-digs.html
The responder to this question sometimes shows a region so large that it encompasses much more territory than the name would imply, since Margiana lies in the Kara Kum Desert and Bactria sits in...
http://bactria-margiana.blogspot.com/2015/07/where-is-bactria-margiana-archeological.html
This amulet bead makes a seal impression when the wearer wished to mark a possession, but probably served also as a bearer of religious symbols. Dr. Victor Sarianidi interpreted thousands of s...
http://bactria-margiana.blogspot.com/2015/06/shapes-and-styles-of-ancient-bactrian.html
Stamp Seal from our Collection of Bactrian Artifacts published on title page of Necropolis of Gonur by Dr. Victor Sarianidi, leader of Russian excavations in the Amu Darya and Murghab ...
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This ancient Bactrian artifact from my personal collection is available for sale. CONTACT ME WITH QUESTIONS OR FOR INVOICE through the private message form at the top right of this page. ...
http://bactria-margiana.blogspot.com/2015/04/ancient-bactrian-wheel-shaped-copper.html
A carefully carved ancient steatite bowl probably used in life by the owner and taken to the grave with the deceased. Ancient Carved Steatite Vessel Bactria Approx Four Thousand Yrs Old ...
http://bactria-margiana.blogspot.com/2015/01/ancient-carved-steatite-vessel-bactria.html
Bactrian Carved Stone Bird Figures as Amulets Ducks were apparently at least partially domesticated animals in Bronze Age Bactria. Perhaps they had simply landed there on the waters of the A...
http://bactria-margiana.blogspot.com/2014/04/bactrian-carved-stone-bird-amulets.html
Almost everything from Bactria that comes into any museum, private collection or into an antiquity dealer's shop is from the tomb of a person or from the buried ruins of the ancient culture. I...
http://bactria-margiana.blogspot.com/2014/02/funerary-beads-with-earth-sweat-patina.html
The Tocharians were a group of the most mysterious residents of the Tarim Basin in the Taklamakan Desert, a region that is now a part of Northwestern China, eventually expanding over the Pamir m...
http://bactria-margiana.blogspot.com/2014/01/tocharians-latecomers-to-bactria.html
We received the sad news from one of Viktor's colleagues at the Russian Academy of Science that Viktor passed away today. It is a great loss to the academic world and to us, his friends. It was a...
http://bactria-margiana.blogspot.com/2013/12/memory-eternal-viktor-sarianidi.html
The Bactrian alphabet either never developed while the ancient Bactrians along the Amu Darya were making the miniature art and the monumental architecture that are their legacy. The art and the ...
http://bactria-margiana.blogspot.com/2013/08/symbolism-in-pre-literate-society.html
BACTRIAN STONE TWO SIDED AMULET PUBLISHED BY ARCHEOLOGIST This stone amulet has an image on each side. It has been examined by Dr. Victor Sarianidi who directed the Russian excavatio...
http://bactria-margiana.blogspot.com/2013/04/connecting-dots-to-make-mythical.html
Bactrian Amulet, Ancient, Images Two Sides, Authenticated and Published CONTACT ME WITH QUESTIONS OR FOR INVOICE through the private message form at the top right of this page. From our...
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Ancient Bactrian Clay Amulet Authenticated, Published by Archeologist CONTACT ME WITH QUESTIONS OR FOR INVOICE through the private message form at the top right of this page. This thirt...
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I am including the story of how I was introduced into the fascinating early history of Bactrian ornamental arts. CONTACT ME WITH QUESTIONS OR FOR INVOICE through the private message form ...
http://bactria-margiana.blogspot.com/2013/03/ancient-bactrian-seal-with-elaborate.html
The people in the Bactria Margiana Archeological Complex, of which Bactria was a part, built massive Bronze Age style walls around their centers of population to protect the region's ruler, the ...
http://bactria-margiana.blogspot.com/2013/02/bactrian-ornamental-art-is-small.html
This blog sketches the wanderings of the Indo-Europeans who came down from the steppes above the Caspian and through the North Central part of Iran into the Margiana high desert oases, and farth...
http://bactria-margiana.blogspot.com/2013/01/bactrians-from-west-to-east-to-west.html