[SunkenCiv]

A picture is worth, well, you know.

[reed13k]

So when they say Indo-Greek do they mean Alexander the Great Indo-Greek or before that?

[Paladin2]

Swat’s up with this dig?

[MUDDOG]

I’ve got a replica Roman bronze coin that looks like the first coin in the picture, down to the corrosion.

I think it came in the mail from Readers Digest in the 1960s, in an ad for some book they were pushing.

[jpsb]

Alexander (The Great) got around quite a bit back in the day.

[Verginius Rufus]

Birthplace of the Sultan of Swat, Babe Ruth?

[Paladin2]

[editor-surveyor]

Alexander was there.

[drpix]

Where exactly is Swat? In the article, some names suggest India, while one quote mentions Pakistan and a FReeper posted a detail map that gave no information as to it's regional location. I looked elsewhere and found a map that supplies that missing information.

Turns out that it's more than 1,000 miles into the interior, beyond Afghanistan and near China.

[Covenantor]

Interesting that they identify the partial figurine as female. Given the location of the site and incised lines it seems to be more of a head wrap very similar to those still worn in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The representation of the eye, huge and puffed out relative to the size of the nose seems more like a badly beaten face. As does the lopsided slack swollen mouth.

Terracotta baroque female figurine, circa 3rd-2nd BC. ─ Courtesy Italian Archaeological Mission in Swat

Facial representation very similar to the booking photo of the homosexual babysitter molester surprised by the male child's father.

Pretty bold assertion by the archaeologists...baring other evidence

[AmericanVictory]

These finds are clearly before George Herman Ruth was the Sultan of Swat.