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[Bianca]

Frank L. Holt
(fholt@uh.edu)

is a professor of history at the University of Houston and most recently author of Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan. He is writing another book on ancient Afghanistan. This is his fifth article in the "I Witness History" series.





 Norman MacDonald
(www.macdonaldart.net)

is a Canadian free-lance artist, living in Amsterdam, who specializes in history and portraiture. This is the fifth article he has illustrated in the series.

 

This article appeared on pages 18-23
of the January/February 2009
print edition of

Saudi Aramco World.