Visual Timeline: Taxila

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1500 BCE - 500 CE: The Gandhara Civilization flourishes in what is today the northern portion of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
 
 
520 BCE - 325 CE: Achaemenid rule in the Gandhara region.
 
 
325 BCE - 320 BCE: Greek rule in Gandhara, ending some time after the death of Alexander the Great.
 
 
320 BCE - 180 BCE: Mauryan rule in the Gandhara region, beginning with Chandragupta Maurya.
 
 
80 BCE - 75 CE: The combined Scytho-Parthians rule Gandhara.
 
 
75 CE - 450 CE: Kushan rule in the Gandhara region, arguably the golden era of the Gandhara civilization in which art, architecture and the propagation of the Buddhist religion excelled.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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