Dig uncovers image of Alexander the Great
(FOCUS News Agency) — Unique marble slab with the image of Alexander the Great and a passage of an inscription was discovered in archaeological excavations in the ancient Baktriya, Baktriya Press Agency informed.
The slab represents an ancient king on a horse heading Macedonian cavalry and Macedonian phalanx at the background.
An inscription written in an ancient language different from ancient Greek or ancient Egyptian languages, on which were written a large part of the stone inscriptions at the time of Alexander is placed from the right of the military arena. According to other assumptions the words of Alexander of Macedonia are written in baktriyan language protolanguage of today’s Bulgarians.
According to archaeologists from the museum in the town of Balh – the baktriyan language is a language, which had been spoken by the soldiers of Alexander of Macedonia, which had unified languages and dialects in his multinational army. Found fragments of ancient Greek inscription at the same site, suggest a possible parallel text.
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Nothing in this article makes any sense. Firstly there is no photo of this new image to support this story. Secondly a claim is made that Alexanders army spoke in a baktrian protolanguage. This suggests that they ancient Macedonian army did not speak ancient Greek but were actually the forefathers of todays Bulgarians. This is a bold assertion from the ‘archeologists from the town of Bahl’ and another example of history being distorted without proof. Overall a very poor article that offers nothing in they way of facts to support these claims.