If You Were To Take A Holiday In Afghanistan...

[sandyRoe]

... would it be safe to try a pipe or two of opium?

[davebro3]

can't think of any other reason to go there....

[naomi24]

Why would you want to?

[sandyRoe]

I've just heard mention of holidays there on the radio.  I wouldn't want to go there myself.  

As for the opium, wouldn't most of us want to try a pipe or two?

[ToraToraTora]

"Holidays" in Afghanistan? right oh! What next? the Gaza strip?

[Peter Pedant]

yeah Times yesterday, Afghan and Taliban saying it is safe enough to visit.

opium... you wd have to ask your tour organiser.

[Peter Pedant]

yup TTT - incredz but true - tourism returns ( creeps back in but you have to restart somewhere!)

Alexander ( the Great that is!) reached there and founded a city or two ( in Greek of course).

The ancient Greek city of Ai-Khanoum in Afghanistan was discovered by accident in the 1960s, but its demise has captivated historians and archaeologists for decades. The city that was lost under the desert sands for almost two thousand years was founded by one of Alexander the Great's successors, Seleucus I Nicator. - they say it was founded for nicator

sorry sorry sprry

[ToraToraTora]

I'd prefer a pipe of port.

[naomi24]

You can read on here:

 

https://greekreporter.com/2024/04/30/afghanistan-ancient-greek-city-mystery-demise/#:~:text=The%20ancient%20Greek%20city%20of,Great's%20successors%2C%20Seleucus%20I%20Nicator.

[youngmafbog]

//As for the opium, wouldn't most of us want to try a pipe or two?//

Being anti drug the answer to that is a sound NO.

 

[douglas9401]

You mean 'my' answer to that, of course.

[Peter Pedant]

I can google faster than she can

[sandyRoe]

I was thinking more of an agent provocateur selling you some and then denouncing you.

[retrocop]

Definitely not. To either.I wouldn't want to witness what will become of the UK eventually and I do not take drugs for recreation and never will.

[douglas9401]

Alcohol excepted.

[naomi24]

Peter Pedant, but I acknowledge my sources and don't pretend it's all my own work.  😉

[Peter Pedant]

Oh dear - erm, I knew about these from for ever.... but there is the internet source to guide the idea. as Sandy roe (JC) said: it was irony and I replied " AB doesnt do irony"

and so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampul_tapestry#/media/File:Sampul_tapestry_(complete).jpg

and quite alot here

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/g8dpax/what_happend_to_the_greek_settlements_in_india/

clearly  hem hem I didnt write these

BUT here is one I wrote earlier

https://www.jstor.org/stable/299064

1978 - I was the first to transcribe as it was an obvious dead end. A dead end no longer - I estimate one paper for every word - around 100. 

 

[naomi24]

🙄

[douglas9401]

Oh I say! Well played that man. 😄

[sandyRoe]

I thought all you privately educated ABers were polymaths.

[Peter Pedant]

Oh hahahahah we were a ccused of forgery - and Robt Anderson stood up and said "there was no one on the site who could write first century Latin"

No document from the  bactrian cities

But my dears, not wishing to tell tales - Dirk Obbin Prof of Greek at Oxford DOES seem to have (I have googled like billy-o for this) made up his great finding - said to be cartonnage

https://brentnongbri.com/2021/03/30/the-retraction-of-dirk-obbinks-sappho-chapter-and-the-question-of-authenticity/

AND

has sold biblical papyri on the open market ( $3.5m) which er werent his !

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/oct/16/oxford-professor-dirk-obbink-ancient-bible-fragments-hobby-lobby#:~:text=A%20statement%20published%20by%20the,to%20be%20employed%20at%20Oxford.

AND has a a dfault judgement for $3.5m against him

wow ! it  all happens in archeology I can tell you !