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Merge

• Support - no-brainer Johnbod 22:54, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - I'd hold off a bit, see below. This article was worthy of DYK on its own in my view and tat of the nom and the person who put it in the staging area :) ++Lar: t/c 13:57, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• the merge may be into this article, though Johnbod 13:59, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

A fact from Tillya Tepe appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 December 2006. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the treasure of Musée Guimet in Paris? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/December.

++Lar: t/c 13:57, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply

I was doing some editing on this page and tried to move it to Tillya Tepe and have, unfortunately, changed some redirects, etc., and created a real mess. I have requested help from an Administrator to help untangle it as I don't feel confident making any further changes myself. Hopefully, it will all be fixed soon. I apologise for any inconvenience I may have caused. Sincerely, John Hill (talk) 09:49, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge now done Johnbod (talk) 14:58, 6 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Anything new about the Bactrian gold after the second Taliban takeover?

Hello fellow Wikipedians! I've noticed that the very first word of this article refers to the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. While it is indeed a fact that the invasion takes place a year after the excavation, it does not make sense to refer to it in the first sentence, as per WP:WEIGHT and WP:MINORASPECT. Furthermore, it appears to somehow create a false link between a scientific campaign, and a military one. While I will remove this from the first sentence for now, I encourage a fellow Wikipedian to add a section regarding the implications of the war on the excavation efforts, which is of course worthy of discussion in this article. Cheers! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrbdt (talk • contribs) 23:29, 15 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again Fellow Wikipedians! On an another matter, the I've noticed that the title is only transliterated from Persian -- however, If I am not mistaken, both Tilya and Tepe are old Turkic words by origin -- "Tepe" means "Hill" in nearly all Turkic languages in existence(First known use: circa A.D. 735, the Orkhon inscriptions: "teŋri tepesinte tutup yügerü kötürmiş" [Modern Turkish: "Tanrı tepesinden tutup yukarı kaldırmış"]). And while "Tilya" is lost in Modern Turkish for instance, it too is of Old Turcic origin, and still means "Gold" in Modern Uzbek/Özbek. Shall we add an Old Turcic transliteration? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrbdt (talk • contribs) 00:13, 16 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]