Renowned for their sense of commerce and diplomacy along the Silk Road from Antiquity to the High Middle Ages, the Sogdians became the most successful merchants of the era. A new genetic study ...

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Tang Dynasty clay figurine of a Sogdian merchant, within the collection of Luoyang Museum [Photo provided to China Daily] Given that the Sogdians were first and foremost businessmen, this assessment ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For centuries, the Royal Palace at Sanjar-Shar was an important seat of power for the Sogdians, an ancient civilization nestled in ...

Excavations in Tajikistan have unveiled a city of merchant princes that flourished from the fifth to the eighth century a.d. An 8th-century A.D. mural unearthed at the city of Panjakent in modern-day ...

Musing Under the Tenement Palm blogs about Sogdians, the builders of Bokhara and Samarkand, who spoke Persian and plied the Silk Route through Central Asia and into China for 15 centuries. They show ...

A new genetic study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science revealed evidence of genetic admixture between ancient Central and East Asians, offering fresh insights into the lives of these ...

Few artifacts from the Sogdians have been found, but those that have offer insights into their role in the ancient world "Of all the more than 60 stone tablets unearthed in Luoyang and bearing the ...

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