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		Begram (Kapisa) became the summer capital of the Kushan Empire from the 1st century, their other capital being in Mathura in central India.
		The "Begram treasure" as it has been called, is indicative of intense commercial exchanges between all the cultural centers of the Classical time, with the Kushan empire at the junction of the land and sea trade between the east and west.
		Begram vase depicting the rape of Ganymede by Zeus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bagram (407 words)

	Begram Web
		The architectural evidence from Begram provides a date of the 1st century CE for the construction of the buildings where the ivory and bone carvings were found.
		And since the building in which the Begram objects was discovered is dated in the first century CE, the stylistic analogies between the ivory figurines from Begram and the known ante quem date of the Pompeii ivory would seem to argue in favor of placing the Begram carvings, too, in the 1st century CE.
		Moreover, the Begram carvings which display this type of technique include a wide variety of figure types: in some plaques the figures are more sturdy and less elegant than on other plaques, such that there is no basis for separating out footstool IX because of the body type of its figures.
	www.ecai.org /begramweb/docs/BegramChapter5_3.htm (1901 words)

	Begram Web
		Surrounded by Hindu Kush ranges on three sides, Begram is situated in this transition region at the convergence of the Panjshir and Ghurband rivers in the province of Kapisa[5], approximately 50 miles northeast of Kabul (Fig.
		Now, for example, it might be possible to determine the dietary staples of a particular society or the timber it used as building material, each a salient element in creating a picture of agricultural patterns and thus of the culture as a whole.
		Begram also had access westward. From Begram, the Ghurband river valley leads into the Bamian valley connecting Begram with Bamian, and via a number of intermediate valleys, with the Safid and Qasa Murg mountain ranges, and with Herat in western Afghanistan, and ultimately with regions further to the west.
	ecai.org /begramweb/docs/begramchapter1_1.htm (1819 words)

	Sarasvati metaphors of wealth: Sarasvati metaphors of wealth: makarajhasa
		Begram, situated on the trading routes between Bactria and Taxila, suggests the routes along which ivory probably was transported… Begram site might well have been an active commercial trading center.
		Begram’s proximity to ancient trade routes connecting India with the Silk Route further bolsters this adjusted view of the Begram ivory and bone objects, and the other objects found in two sealed-off rooms, as part of merchants’ stock awaiting trade or further distribution.
		In the Begram plaque described in the previous section, where the symbol is presented atop a triratna, the upper part of the symbol takes the form of a inverted triratna with the middle prong pointed but the outer prongs curled inward (Plate 391).
	makarajhasa.blogspot.com /2005/11/sarasvati-metaphors-of-wealth.html (13012 words)

	Kabul Museum
		The ivory throne back from Begram was demolished to remove the 13 small carved panels; splinters of the frame were found strewn over the floor.
		The precious ivory throne-back from Begram was found demolished, after looters had removed the thirteen intricately carved panels.
		Not a single intact object survived from the Begram collection, which had been excavated in the 1930s at the second-century summer palace of the Kushan king.
	www.michaelmenninger.de /begram/html/kabul.htm (892 words)

	Lemar-Aftaab Oct-Dec. 1997 - Articles - The Lost Treasures - Mir Hekmatullah Sadat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Begram collection discovered in 1939, dating from 1st century, comprised of 1,800 lacquers, bronzes, ivories, statutes and glassware items from Ancient Rome, Greece, India, China, Egypt and Central Asia.
		Begram was the site of Kapisa, summer capital of Kanisha, King of the Kushans.
		In 1995, the historic pistol of Wazir Akbar Khan that was used to kill Gen. McNaughton at Bala-Hissar marking the end of the 1st Anglo-Afghan War was discovered in the hands of another Pakistan official (Arif, 1996).
	www.afghanmagazine.com /articles/oct97articles/lost.html (1277 words)

	Kabul Museum
		This ivory depiction of a river goddess was found in Begram, and stands 47 cm tall.
		This is a statue of a Naga King emerging from a tank, and it appears to be holding the stalk of a lotus.
		This ivory panel from Begram is 8 X 13.5 cm, and it is an incised drawing rather than a carving.
	pratyeka.org /kabul-museum (1252 words)

	Museum Under Siege: Full Text
		Ivories from Begram, capital of the Kushan Empire in the first century A.D., are among the museum's prize possessions now for sale on the international art market.
		There is no doubt that the ivory panels excavated at Begram, located on the ancient Silk Route some 40 miles northeast of Kabul, are on the international art market.
		Last summer more Begram ivories were seen in Islamabad, but accurate information is nearly impossible to obtain since the highly organized Pakistani underground network for stolen art is naturally secretive.
	www.he.net /~archaeol/online/features/afghan/index.html (3524 words)

	Original Lithograph on paper at The Leicester Galleries
		This view of the plain of Begram, the Reg Ruwan, and part of the Kohistan, was taken from the fort of Lughmanee, two miles to the south of Cahrikar, (the station of the Goorkaha regiment,)and the coup d'oeil presented from that spot is truly magnificent.
		The winding courses of the rivers, the picturesque appearance of the forts and gardens, the verdure of the pastures, of the bold and varied aspect of the surrounding hills, crowned buy the snowy summits of the Hinsoo Kosh, form a landscape of surpassing beauty.
		The situation is well suited for a capital: dry, flat, and elevated, in a rich country and near the foot of the passes, which lead to and from Tartary.
	www.leicestergalleries.com /provenart/dealer_stock_details.cgi?d_id=253&a_id=15226 (1026 words)

	Buddhist Channel \| Archaeology \| Treasures saved from Taleban vandals
		Museum staff had carefully packed and hidden them before the Taleban takeover in 1996, and remained silent about their fate as speculation and rumour blossomed.
		Among the spectacular objects recently displayed to Afghan and foreign officials are the Begram Ivories, a series of delicately carved panels and figures in Indian style, found in an ancient city at the foot of the Hindu Kush by French excavators before the Second World War.
		The Begram treasure also includes fragile coloured-glass vessels imported from the Mediterranean, and plaster roundels depicting Classical Greek deities: Afghanistan was a crossroads of cultures, and Begram's strategic position made it the key to trade across the Hindu Kush between the Oxus and Indus drainages.
	www.buddhistchannel.tv /index.php?id=4,1181,0,0,1,0 (472 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Begram collection discovered in 1939%2C dating from 1st century%2C comprised of 1%2C800 lacquers%2C bronzes%2C ivories%2C statutes and glassware items from Ancient Rome%2C Greece%2C India%2C China%2C Egypt and Central Asia.
		Begram was the site of Kapisa%2C summer capital of Kanisha%2C King of the Kushans.
		Rashid %281995b%29 cites Nancy Dupree %28Vice-Chairperson of the Society for the Preservation of Afghanistan%92s Cultural Heritage%29 referring to the Begram collection as %22The most spectacular archaeological find of the 20th century%22 %28p.51%29.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID43/Data/2422.txt (356 words)

	Vandalised Afghanistan
		Coins from the first Mir Zakah hoard, the Kabul hoard, and the Qunduz hoard (627 Graeco-Bactrian coins and their imitations), those from the excavation of Ai Khanoum, the finds of which included two major hoards, and coins from Begram were among them.
		Most of the artefacts from the Kabul Museum, discovered in the Begram, Ai Khanoum and Hadda excavations, surfaced in the Peshawar bazaar a few days after the plundering of the museum and then entered private collections.
		Among them are the most valuable ivory plaques found in the Begram excavations by French archaeologists in 1937.
	www.hinduonnet.com /fline/fl1906/19060660.htm (2542 words)

	Viktor Karpukhin
		He joined the KGB's crack Alpha unit in 1979 and worked his way up to commander.
		On December 23, 1979, Karpukhin led 38 soldiers of the "Alfa" anti-terrorist group, who along with 500 Soviet paratroopers, landed at Begram[?] airport, next to Kabul, Afghanistan.
		Two days later, 40,000 Red Army soldiers poured over the Afghan border.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/vi/Viktor_Karpukhin.html (155 words)

	E-Zine
		The monastery of Ghazni (Tapa-e-Sardar) and Fondukistan are renowned for the stucco figures of the Buddha and other deities.
		In Kapisa, now known as Begram (Viharagrama) which was once one of the capitals of Kaniska, we find ruins of two large Buddhist monasteries near it, one at Shotorak (=Sihaviraka) and the other at Sevaki.
		Kipin has been identified with Kapisa, modern Begram in Afghanistan.
	www.thanhsiang.org /eng/ezine/html/articles/2003/csupasak(afghan).html (2315 words)

	Lecturers \| UC-AFT
		The PDF grant enabled me to travel to France to conduct research for a digital publication of a large collection of ivory and bone carvings discovered in the 1930s at the ancient site of Begram, Afghanistan.
		In cooperation with the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) at UC Berkeley, I was able to construct a virtual collection of the Begram objects which combines text and images in a searchable database.
		It is the only extant complete record of these Begram finds.
	berkeleyaft.org /taxonomy/term/15 (327 words)

	I had some nice soup tonight in The AnswerBank: Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After the air has been forced out, most of the gas left in the container is water vapour, at a higher temperature than the soup.
		The reason you got a different experieince with the water is simply that you heated it to a higher temp.
		If you had waited a little 'til it was the same temp as the soup, the container would have collapsed in exactly the same way.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Science/Question210215.html (1077 words)

	BEGRAM
		BEGRAM is a software consultant company with long experience of software design.
		Contact us with your wishes and we will submit you an offer.
		Software development where your fantasy is the only limit.
	www.begram.com (41 words)

	Document sans titre
		principally from the urban site of Begram to the north of Kabul.
		Begram (ancient Alexandria of Caucasus, the city founded by Alexander the Great) now lies buried beneath Baghram, the military air base so much in the news during the recent conflict.
		The coins collected and recorded by Masson provide unique and comprehensive numismatic evidence for reconstructing the history of this lost city, as only a very small area of the site was ever excavated.
	www.artmag.com /museums/a_greab/british/afghan1.html (410 words)

	Engineer LTC and MN School Help Afghanistan Girl's School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		O'Hara deployed to Afghanistan from last April to November, working at Bagram, a former Soviet air force base.
		Tom O'Hara delivered school supplies from NorthBranch Middles School to an all girls school in Begram, Afghanistan.
		But O'Hara got to visit a nearby school in the village of Bagram last May, where he saw three children sharing one pencil.
	www.hq.usace.army.mil /history/enduring_freedom_saved_articles/minnesota_school_helps_afghan_school.htm (391 words)

	Begram info here at en.bushleague.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		History 1: The Kushans The Kushans also had a summer capital in Bagram (then known as Kapisa), where the "Begram Treasure", comprising works of art from Greece to China, has been found.
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	en.bushleague.info /Begram (139 words)

	ARTH 211 Lecture 5
		Shotorak Buddhist Monastery, Court D, from west, Begram.
		Shotorak Buddhist Monastery, Stupa D2, view from southeast, Begram.
		Shotorak Buddhist Monastery, F6 (South), Buddha no.171, Begram.
	www.arthistory.upenn.edu /spr03/211/211lecture5.html (264 words)

	Gandhara Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hackin J.: Nouvelles recherches archéologiques à Begram (ancienne Kâpicî) (1939-1940).
		Kuwayama Sh.: The horizon of Begram III and beyond.
		Menninger M.: Untersuchungen zu den Gläsern und Gipsabgüssen aus dem Fund von Begram, Afghanistan.
	mlucom6.urz.uni-halle.de /orientarch/ca/gand/gandhara.htm (5425 words)

	Saving Afghan Culture Zoom In @ National Geographic Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		View exclusive photographs and get the facts behind the frame.
		Carved from ivory, mythical creatures of India adorned an elaborate chair in about the late first century A.D. This masterpiece belonged to a cache of luxury goods—including Roman glassware and Chinese lacquered boxes—that was discovered in the 1930s near the modern town of Begram.
		The National Museum in Kabul displayed the ivory for years, but it disappeared in the late 1970s as civil war rocked the country.
	magma.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0412/feature2/zoom3.html (122 words)

	Vivâna
		On the thirteenth day of the month Anâmaka was the battle fought by them.
		may be another name for Kapisa, the citadel of the capital of Arachosia, modern Kandahâr; it is also possible that it is identical to modern Begram, north of modern Kabul.
		About the date we can be more precise: 29
	www.livius.org /vi-vr/vivana/vivana.html (486 words)

	IT Compliance Institute - Sensitive data pours out of US base in Afghanistan via stolen flash memory
		Flash memory sticks clog fl market shops, and some have sensitive files
		4.13.06 Flash memory sticks being sold at local shops in Begram, Afghanistan, appeared to contain sensitive files from a nearly US base, including the social security numbers of four generals.
		The US military was investigating the incident, while a shop keeper told a reporter that he gets the finger-sized devices all the time, and that they were sold purely as hardware
	www.itcinstitute.com /display.aspx?id=1613 (250 words)

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