Taxila dates back to the Gandhara
period when it was an important Hindu and
Buddhist centre, and is still considered a place of
religious and historical sanctity in those
traditions. Gandhara art was a style of Buddhist
visual art that developed in what is now
northwestern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan
between the 1st century B.C and the 7th century
A.D The style, of Greco-Roman origin, seems to
have flourished largely during the Kushana
dynasty.