Botan Valley

Some two thousand four hundred years ago, an army of Greek mercenaries set out on a grueling journey home from Mesopotamia toward the Black Sea. Xenophon, who recounted this journey in his ‘Anabasis’, writes that after crossing rugged mountains the army reached a river called the Centrites. Today many researchers believe this river to be the Botan… So what did those weary soldiers feel when they reached the banks of this valley?