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The Bactrian Gold: A Nomadic Hoard That Rewrote Central Asian History
In 1978, Soviet archaeologist Viktor Sarianidi uncovered a spectacular hoard of over 20,000 gold objects at Tillya Tepe in northern Afghanistan. The Bactrian Gold, as it became known, was buried with six nomadic chieftains and their female relatives, dating to the first century BCE. This episode explores the contents of the hoard—from intricate belt buckles depicting Scythian animal combats to a coin of the Parthian king Gotarzes I. But the real story is what the hoard reveals about the cultural crossroads of ancient Bactria: Greek, Persian, Indian, and steppe traditions mingled in these…
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