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The Rabatak slab named Kanishka's ancestor and collapsed his dating
A farmer found a Bactrian slab naming Kanishka’s ancestor - so what changed for Kushan history?
The Rabatak slab named Kanishka's ancestor and collapsed his dating
In this episode, we follow the discovery and fallout of the Rabatak inscription and how a single stone shifted the timeline for Kanishka and the Kushan Empire. We outline the archaeological find, the coin and inscription evidence that reconstructs Kushan origins, and the chronological questions the slab forces historians to confront.
Person: Kanishka
Person: Kujula Kadphises
Location: Rabatak, Afghanistan
Date: 1993 (discovery of…
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