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MAJOR BRONZE AGE FIND ASIAN DIGS REVEAL UNKNOWN BACTRIAN CIVILIZATION
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Ruins and artifacts of an important Bronze Age civilization
are emerging from a windswept desert along Afghanistan's northern
border, where Soviet excavations have yielded spectacular finds for
nearly two decades.
Only recently, however, have archeologists realized the
significance of what they had been uncovering -- that a
sophisticated, entirely unsuspected civilization, known as Bactria,
flourished in south-central Soviet Asia from about 2500 to 1500 BC.
That conclusion emerged only slowly despite intriguing clues
that began to appear in the late 1960s, when a Soviet expedition ...
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