Taxila Things to Do

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As you the VT reader may know Alexander The Greats last stop in his congest was here in this Part of South Asia and there is evidence that Greek was written and spoken here for about a 1000 years from 327B.C.E. until sometime in the 6th or 7th hundred. You can study all of this at the Indo-Greek strata section at the Taxila Museum see all the Archaeological artifacts from the John Marshall "Taxila, Archeological excavations". Here is a very well done a 15 min video of Taxila

Alaxandia and his men came through the far north of Pakistan 327 B.C.E in the highlands of Northern Pakistan he felt the necessity to trim down the army that he had led through Persia to accommodate the different climate and terrain that they would face. He burned all of the baggage wagons of Persian booty that hindered his mobility, and he dismissed a large number of his soldiers, reshaping his army with several thousand Persian cavalrymen. The remaining Greek troops were left under the command of general Eudemus. Sometime after 321 Eudemus toppled Taxiles and this became the Sort of Greek capital. Peithon, son of Agenor and Greek ("Yavana") troops seem to have assisted Chandragupta Maurya in toppling the Nanda Dynasty.
Indo-Greek Kingdom (or sometimes Graeco-Indian Kingdom covered various parts of the northwest and northern Indian subcontinent until 10 CE, and was ruled by a succession of more than thirty Hellenic and Hellenistic kings.

For example the coin below was that of Menander I (known as Milinda in Sanskrit and Pali) was one of the rulers of the Indo-Greek Kingdom in present-day Pakistan from 155 or 150 to 130 BC.

Apollodotus I was an Indo-Greek king between 180 and 160 BCE who ruled the western and southern parts of the Indo-Greek kingdom, from Taxila

The Taxila museum is open from 0830-1230; 1430-1730 in summer time (1 April-30 September). 0800-1600 in winter (1 October-31 March).