At the time of the burials, Bactria was on the Silk Road that linked China with the ... B.C., and who later established what is known as the Kushan Kingdom in India. Other scholars believe the ...

and the northern Kushan Empire. In the 2nd century AD, Claudius Ptolemy wrote that the geographer Marinus of Tyre reported that Maes had reached the Stone Tower, a geographical landmark considered the ...