Word: cambon
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Afghanistan has been subject to so many invasions and influences that new terms have had to be found for some of its art, as in Greco-Buddhist. The latter stems from the arrival of the best known of the conquerors, the Macedonian Alexander the Great. Pierre Cambon, chief conservator of Paris' Guimet Museum and commissioner of this exhibition, explains that although Alexander the Great ruled Afghanistan for only three years [330-327 B.C.] and died in his early 30s, his adventures and the mystique that surrounded them helped build yet another of the bridges to Afghanistan, this time reaching from...