Bronze Age Bactria and Indian Religion
Parpola A.
In: Ancient Near East and India. Studia Orientalia, Vol. 70. (Intercultural Religious Parallels. The Franco-Finnish Symposium 1990). — Paris, 1993. — Pp. 81-87.The discovery of a previously unknown Bronze Age culture in Bactria (North Afghanistan) and the adjacent Margiana (Merv in Turkmenistan) over the past fifteen years has opened up new possibilities for understanding what happened in this part of the world around the beginning of the second millennium B.C. I have been trying to correlate the new information from Bactria with our other sources, and a substantial part of the results has already been published in detail. The present paper only summarizes some principal ideas, adding a few new observations here and there.