Paul Bernard, in Scientific American
(Jan. 1982), P.O. Box 5969, New York,
N.Y. 10017.
Scholars have long suspected that a Greek colonial state flourished in what is now Soviet Tadzhikistan and Afghanistan, in the second and third centuries B.C. But aside from some coins, no traces of the rumored "1,000 cities" of Hellenic Bactriana could be found. Now, in northwest- ern Afghanistan, close to the Soviet border, a French archaeological team reports it has unearthed the ruins of Ai Khanum,...