Archaeologists in Pakistan have unearthed an extremely rare hoard of copper coins, thought to be more than 2,000 years old, from the ruins of a Buddhist shrine built at the even more ancient site of ...

Archaeologists unearthed rare lapis lazuli stones and bronze coins dating back to the Kushan era at Pakistan's Bhir Mound, a ...

Agartala, Oct. 22: The discovery of 11 coins possibly dating back to the reign of Kushan King Kanishka (127-151 AD) from the Brahmakunda riverbed in Mohanpur sub-division, 40km from here, has cast new ...

A team of early-career researchers at the University of Cologne has succeeded in decoding a script that has been puzzling scholars for over seventy years: the so-called ‘unknown Kushan script’. Over a ...

A radiocarbon study reveals that the Darband Wall in Uzbekistan was built in the 3rd century BCE—half a century earlier than previously believed—and suggests a crucial strategic shift centuries later ...

ISLAMABAD: Security personnel at the Islamabad airport busted a third attempt in almost as many months to smuggle out rare artifacts of the country on the Independence Day, Dawn has learned. Customs ...

Recent excavations at Zehanpora in Baramulla have unearthed Kushan-era stupas along the ancient Silk Route, confirming ...

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