Gold stater of the Greco-Bactrian king Eucratides. Credit: Public Domain, illustration by Greek Reporter Bactria, a huge area in what is today Afghanistan, was the eastern edge of the ancient Greek ...

Like Arabian camels, Bactrians rarely sweat, helping them conserve fluids for long periods of time. When camels do drink, though, they can devour an incredible amount of water, reaching up to 30 ...

Rusty, a Bactrian camel at the Detroit Zoo, has been euthanized. Like Arabian camels, Bactrians rarely sweat, helping them conserve fluids for long periods of time. When camels do drink ...

Most camels, that is. An exception must be made in the case of the incredibly lifelike, lifesize, unnervingly dignified Bactrians created by Manhattan’s Nancy Graves, 28, a graduate of the Yale ...