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Sirkap means severed head, and is the name of the mythological demon that feasted on human flesh and killed the hero Rasalu, that was said to have lived on the site. Sirkap was a fortified city founded during the mid-2nd century BC. The walls of the city are made from coursed rubble masonry, characteristic of the Greek and Saca periods; many private houses, stupas, and temples were laid out on the Hellenistic grid system and demonstrate the strong western classical influence on local architecture of that time. The city was destroyed in the 1st century by the Kushans, a Central Asian tribe. This city was developed under various regimes, from the Greeks to the Scythians, Parthians and finally the Kashanas. Sirkap used to have a 6-meter thick and 5-kilometer-long defensive wall that was made of coursed rubble.

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