Taxila

Glossary

An archaeological site in present-day Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Founded c. 1000 BCE, the site was located along trade routes between Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent. It was successively controlled by the Achaemenid, Mauryan, Indo-Greek, Indo-Scythian and Kushan Empires. From the Sanskrit takshashila, meaning “city of cut stone.”

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Taxila%newline%An archaeological site in present-day Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Founded c. 1000 BCE, the site was located along trade routes between Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent. It was successively controlled by the Achaemenid, Mauryan, Indo-Greek, Indo-Scythian and Kushan Empires. From the Sanskrit takshashila, meaning "city of cut stone."

Chicago	MAP Academy Encyclopedia of Art. “Taxila”. Accessed April 27, 2024. https://mapacademy.io/glossary/taxila/
MLA	“Taxila.” MAP Academy Encyclopedia of Art. https://mapacademy.io/glossary/taxila/. Accessed 27, April, 2024.
Harvard	MAP Academy Encyclopedia of Art. (2022) Taxila. [Online]. Available at: https://mapacademy.io/glossary/taxila/. (Accessed: 27, April, 2024)