| It has been the land of mighty empires, a powerful trading nation rich in culture and civilisation. |
| As the cradle of western civilisation, it is also your big fat spiritual home. |
| It was this Temple which first predicted the deluge destined to destroy the Atlantean civilisation. |
| The objects date mostly from the great Bronze Age of the Bactrian civilisation. |
| This is a civilisation we have been fighting against and with for the best part of 700 years. |
| If civilisation lay in ruins, then there was a momentous opportunity to sweep away this heap of broken images and start afresh. |
