What do an ancient Greek, a girl from India, and a Chinese man have in common in the depths of Central Asia? Thousands of kilometers away from Greece, in an area with deserts, a cold climate, and towering mountain ranges. Here, where the sea is farther away than anywhere else on earth, a Hellenistic culture emerged as a result of the conquests of Alexander the Great.

Travel to the distant kingdom of Greco-Bactria, where the inhabitants witnessed world-historical events that were recorded simultaneously for the first time in world history by ancient Greek and Chinese historians.