Ai-Khanoum

Ai-Khanoum was an important city a few centuries BCE when Alexander the Great and his successors ruled Bactria. Today it is only ruins and is in Kunduz province, Afghanistan.

Ai-Khanoum is one of the more important archaeological sites for the Graeco-Bactrian civilization. The city is thought by some experts to have been founded by Alexander as Alexandria-on-the-Oxus; others argue that it was founded a few decades later by one of his successors. It was destroyed around 145 BCE.

See

• 1 Gymnasium. one of the largest of Antiquity. (updated Feb 2016)
• 2 Theater. (updated Feb 2016)
• 3 Acropolis. (updated Feb 2016)