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The Rabatak Inscription and the Invention of the Kushan Empire

The Rabatak Inscription and the Invention of the Kushan Empire

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When a farmer in northern Afghanistan unearthed a stone slab in 1993, he set off a revolution in our understanding of one of history's most elusive empires. The Rabatak Inscription, written in Bactrian with Greek script, is the Rosetta Stone of the Kushan world. In it, King Kanishka I recounts his conquests, his lineage, and his decision to replace Greek with Bactrian as the imperial language. Lucas and Luna explore how this single artifact rewrote the history of Central Asia—confirming that the Kushans were the same people as the Yuezhi nomads who fled the Xiongnu centuries earlier, that they ruled a vast multilingual empire from the Ganges to the Oxus, and that they deliberately crafted a hybrid identity to hold it together. They also touch on the controversy: did Kanishka commission the inscription to legitimize a usurpation? And what does it mean that the god he invokes most is the Zoroastrian Nana, not a Greek or Indian deity? This episode takes a single stone and shows how an empire thought. #RabatakInscription #KanishkaI #KushanEmpire #Yuezhi #BactrianLanguage #GreekScript #Nana #Zoroastrianism #Afghanistan #SilkRoad #CentralAsia #Numismatics #Epigraphy #ImperialLegitimacy #CulturalHybridity #FexingoHistory #WorldHistory #AncientEmpires Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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