Archaeologist Uddhav Acharya confirmed that the relics unearthed during the excavation can be traced back to the period of the Kushan era ... that statues of Lord Buddha were crafted for the ...

Every day, watched by four gilded Buddha statues, a Japanese Buddhist ... when Gandhara was ruled by the Kushan kings of northern India, whose empire stretched from Kabul to Islamabad.

This region, also known as the Crossroads of Asia, witnessed the exchange and mixing of many different cultural impulses under the patronage of the Kushan ... the Gautama Buddha in the first ...