Three Sensational Discoveries Debunk the 'Bactrian Mirage' Myth
В легендах и мифах разных народов, древних письменных источниках, античной литературе часто упоминалась расположенная на Востоке удивительная и очень богатая золотоносная страна — Бактрия. В манускриптах Междуречья Тигра и Ефрата и Индии сообщается, что в горах Бактрии (Бадахшане) добывался лазурит, из которого еще в III тысячелетии до новой эры изготовлялись украшения и печати. Бадахшанского лазурит обнаружен даже в предметах из гробницы Тутанхамона. Ассирийские источники со
Ancient texts and legends have long spoken of Bactria, a rich and golden land to the East, famed for its lapis lazuli and Bactrian camels. Artifacts found in locations like Tutankhamun's tomb and Mesopotamian manuscripts attest to its historical significance. However, French archaeologist A. Foucher's 1947 excavations in Balkh yielded no ancient layers, leading him to declare ancient Bactria a 'mirage.' This notion persisted until the 1960s when archaeologist A. Mandelstam discovered the Bishkent culture, predating the Achaemenid conquest by a millennium. Further discoveries of the closely related Vakhsh culture in Tajikistan and the Sapallitepa settlement in Uzbekistan provided more evidence of Bactria's reality as a cradle of ancient agricultural civilization. These findings, blending Greco-Mediterranean, Achaemenid, and Indo-Iranian artistic elements, have definitively dispelled the 'Bactrian mirage.'
The archaeological discoveries in Central Asia have definitively proven the existence of ancient Bactria, challenging previous scholarly assumptions and revealing a significant center of early civilization.
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