The team rushed to deliver the artifacts, which became known as the Bactrian Gold, to the National Museum in Kabul. From Wordnik.com. [The Keeper of the Keys and the Mystery of the Bactrian Gold] Reference
Camels with two humps are from Asia, and are called Bactrian camels. From Wordnik.com. Reference
He was the founder of the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
She would make no jealous scenes about the Bactrian. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
Who would say what fancies might scare the Bactrian?. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
Africa, and the two-humped, or Bactrian camel, in Asia. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation] Reference
But a great Bactrian empire certainly never existed; the. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The Bactrian, Samian sage, and all who taught the right!. From Wordnik.com. [Childe Harold's Pilgrimage] Reference
Assyrians, or Arabians who was a Mede, a Persian, a Bactrian, a. From Wordnik.com. [Cyropaedia] Reference
Zoroastrianism, is written, has often been called "old Bactrian.". From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The basin does support a large number of domestic Bactrian camels. From Wordnik.com. [Qaidam Basin semi-desert] Reference
Kanishka followed the Graeco-Bactrian policy of religious tolerance. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Sketch of Buddhism and Islam in Afghanistan] Reference
This is one hump for a dromedary camel and two humps for a Bactrian camel. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2009] Reference
This is dromedary, dromedary means one hump, Bactrian with a B means two humps. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2008] Reference
There are also large flocks of sheep, cows, goats, ponies, fine dogs and Bactrian camels. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
He had looked at her; and she had known it was she, not the Bactrian, who was the chosen one. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
A roughly equal number of wild Bactrian camels occur in Great Gobi National Park in Mongolia. From Wordnik.com. [Taklimakan desert] Reference
The weakness of the Graeco-Bactrian kingdoms was shown by their sudden and complete overthrow. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
COOPER: It took also two month for your crews to track down Bactrian camels in the Gobi Desert. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2007] Reference
"Look well on these pictures of the Bactrian masterpieces that follow," the final passage read. From Wordnik.com. [He Found Himself in a World] Reference
Among his captives here was a beautiful Bactrian princess, Roxana by name, who became his bride. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
This reserve supports one of the two remaining populations of wild Bactrian camels (Camelus ferus). From Wordnik.com. [Alashan Plateau semi-desert] Reference
At left, Greek-prescribed and Bactrian language writing from around 200 A.D. on a limestone tablet. From Wordnik.com. [National Treasure] Reference
There are basically really no wild camels left except maybe the Bactrian camel which is in Mongolia. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2008] Reference
The stone cube referred to the platform on which a stupa stood, as was the custom in Bactrian temples. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Sketch of Buddhism and Islam in Afghanistan] Reference
A Macedonian queen would have held him up for them to see; but Bactrian ladies did not show themselves in public. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
How could the foot of the poor jaded pedestrian go on, now that the Bactrian dromedary got impatient of its burden?. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
From the cultural contact that ensued, Graeco-Bactrian monks orally transmitted The Questions of Milinda to Sri Lanka. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Sketch of Buddhism and Islam in Afghanistan] Reference
A folding gold crown from one of the six graves of Bactrian nomads discovered at Tillya Tepe in northern Afghanistan in 1978. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures of Ancient Afghanistan] Reference
He reported that Buddhism was flourishing in the Bactrian portion of their empire, especially at Nava Vihara Monastery in Balkh. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Sketch of Buddhism and Islam in Afghanistan] Reference
To crown these miseries, she had known that somewhere in the palace was the King's Bactrian wife, whom he had taken along to India. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
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