UNESCO site for trade-Taxila

Taxila



Taxila
The known history of Taxila begins from the 6th century BC when it formed a part of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia. Subsequently conquered by Alexander the Great in 326 BC. The Greeks described it as the "The greatest of all the cities in this part of the world." Since then it remained under the successive domination of the Mauryans, the Bactrian Greeks, Scythians, Parthians, Kushanas and Sassanians, till its final destruction by the White Huns in the 5th century AD. The Taxila valley once the abode of many splendid Buddhist establishment is 18km long and 8 km broad, protected by a natural defence of high ridges and irrigated by the Haro River, a substantial river with its several branches. The city boasted of scores of Buddhist Stupas and Monasteries embellished with specimens of Gandhara art.