I have been giving talks on my book for over a year now and the one thing that is guaranteed to get an audience reaction is the Berenike Buddha in Egypt. People seem amazed it exists and then what it tells us about the ancient world.
So I wrote the whole thing up as a Bad Ancient article:
With the growth of Buddhism in ancient India, there were claims that the religion spread out towards the Mediterranean; but is there any clear proof this was the case?
