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Ai-Khanoum
Ai-Khanoum is the site of a Hellenistic city at the meeting of the Amu Darya and Kokcha rivers in northern Afghanistan, probably founded in the early Seleucid period around 300 BCE. Excavated by French archaeologists from 1964 to 1978, it revealed a theatre, gymnasium, palace and Greek inscriptions, making it the best-known city of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. It was abandoned around 145 BCE after nomad invasions, and the site was heavily looted during the Afghan wars.
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