A thesis undermined by silence

It is exhausting merely to follow the conquests of Alexander the Great on a map: through the collapsing empire of Achaemenid Iran, along the northern outskirts of Parthia, up into Bactria and Sogdia, then down to the Indus Valley and back around to Egypt. Dotted all along are places which were Hellenised, and it is the task of the art historian to sort out how far Greek influence spread and who clung on to it longest.The al-Sabah collection in Kuwait consists mainly of superb silver and gold ve