Taxila was arranged at the significant intersection of the Indian subcontinent and Central Asia. Its starting point as a city backpedals to c. 1000 BCE. A few vestiges at Taxila date to the season of the Achaemenid Empire in the sixth century BCE, took after progressively by Mauryan, Indo-Greek, Indo-Scythian, and Kushan periods. Inferable from its key area, Taxila has changed hands many circumstances throughout the hundreds of years, with numerous domains competing for its control. At the point when the immense antiquated exchange courses interfacing these locales stopped to be vital, the city sank into inconsequentiality and was at long last annihilated by the itinerant Hunas in the fifth century. The classicist Alexander Cunningham rediscovered the remnants of Taxila in the mid-nineteenth century.