Afghanistan : forging civilizations along the Silk Road / edited by Joan Aruz and Elisabetta Valtz Fino

Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-133).

Selected conference papers

"Most of the essays published in this volume were presented at the symposium "Afghanistan: hidden treasures from the National Museum, Kabul," held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on September 10, 2009."--t.p. verso

Map of the Silk Road. Introduction / Joan Aruz. At the crossroads of Asia : a history of the National Museum of Afghanistan / Omara Khan Massoudi. The Bronze Age world of Afghanistan / Fredrik T. Hiebert. Chronology: western, central, and east Asia after Alexander. Coins : "The great guides of the historian" / Frank L. Holt. Aï Khanum : a Greek colony in post-Alexandrian Central Asia, or how to be Greek in an Oriental milieu / Paul Bernard. The glass from Begram / David Whitehouse. The Begram carvings : itinerancy and the problem of "Indian" art / Sanjyot Mehendale. Bactrian gold : jewelry workshop traditions at Tillya Tepe / Jane Hickman. Tillya Tepe and its connections with the Eurasian steppes / Henri-Paul Francfort. Tillya Tepe : echoes of Greece and China / John Boardman. Links, missing and otherwise : Tillya Tepe and East Asia / Denise Patry Leidy

Map of the Silk Road -- Introduction / Joan Aruz -- At the crossroads of Asia : a history of the National Museum of Afghanistan / Omara Khan Massoudi -- The Bronze Age world of Afghanistan / Fredrik T. Hiebert -- Chronology: western, central, and east Asia after Alexander -- Coins : "The great guides of the historian" / Frank L. Holt -- Aï Khanum : a Greek colony in post-Alexandrian Central Asia, or how to be Greek in an Oriental milieu / Paul Bernard -- The glass from Begram / David Whitehouse -- The Begram carvings : itinerancy and the problem of "Indian" art / Sanjyot Mehendale -- Bactrian gold : jewelry workshop traditions at Tillya Tepe / Jane Hickman -- Tillya Tepe and its connections with the Eurasian steppes / Henri-Paul Francfort -- Tillya Tepe : echoes of Greece and China / John Boardman -- Links, missing and otherwise : Tillya Tepe and East Asia / Denise Patry Leidy.