Bhir Mind: At Bhir Mound however we find ourselves at a surer ground leaving hypothetical reconstructions behind This name is obviously very recent but the city of Bhir Mound belongs to the time of the Achaeme-nian rulers of Iran. The oldest structural remains at this site comprise rough stone structures which cannot be ascribed to a date earlier than the fifth or the sixth century B.C. The actual rule of this Iranian dynasty lasted from abour 518 B.C. to 359 B.C. Among the legacies they left behind, the most notable was the use of the Aramaic writing. It was from this script that the local writing called 'kharoshth .commonly employed in the north west to about the 5th century A.D., was derived. Bhir Mound was a flourishing city at the time of Alexander's 326 BC) He i He is even said to have left a Greek ear changed the whole outlook and the Greeks were soon driven out or destroyed by Chandragupta Maurya who extended his dominions as far as Afghanistan. Under the Mauryas the Bhir Mound city of Taxila rose to a pre-eminent position among the cities of the North West)It was here that Ashoka afterwards ruled as a viceroy on visit in the spring of 326 garrison here but his death the following year behalf of his father Bindusara, and here, too, that in the his father/According to Tibetan tradition Ashoka died at Taxila and was succeeded by his son. Kunala)(c. 237 229 B.C.). The name of this prince was perpetuated at Taxila by a commemorative stupa which, as Hiuen Tsiang says, was erected to mark the spot where the young viceroy had his eyes put out through the evil machinations of his stepmother. For three generations Taxila remained the administrative headquarters of the Mauryan viceroys and then in about 189 B.C passed into the hands of the Greeks of Bactria.commonly known as "Indo-Greeks