Alfred Charles Auguste Foucher (1865–1952), a French scholar, identified the Buddha image as having Greek origins.
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New archeological discoveries in Central Asia however (such as the Hellenistic city of Ai-Khanoum and the excavation of Sirkap in modern Pakistan), have been pointing to rich Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek civilizations in these areas, reviving the Hellenistic thesis.
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