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 ...

Samarkand, also spelled as Samarqand, is a city located in modern day Uzbekistan, or the historical Central Asian region of Transoxiana. The city’s location in the Zerafshan River Valley provided it ...

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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Tucked along the picturesque Zeravshan River in the rocky mountains ...

Turkman coins with the Sogdian language inscription "TWRK X'Y'N," It can be argued that coins not only represent history but also serve as a document of it. A recent discovery in the Fergana region in ...

TEHRAN -- On July 29, Iranians pause to honor the memory of Badrolzaman Qarib, a towering figure in the world of Iranian linguistics and a pioneering scholar of ancient languages. Born in 1929 in ...

TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN—A small bronze coin found at an ancient site near Tashkent has the potential to reshape archaeologists’ understanding of early Turkic civilization, reports Türkiye Today.

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 ...

Rock inscriptions in Greek were discovered on a mountain in Central Asia. Credit: CAAL website 9((CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) via Wikimedia Commons Ancient Greek inscriptions carved on a rock were recently found ...