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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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If the ancient Silk Road is a theater, then the Sogdians were its most dynamic performers. Monopolizing the trans-Eurasian trade route for half a millennium between the fourth and the eighth centuries ...

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 ...

Sogdians, a group of Central Asians based between the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, played a significant historical role at the crossroads of the Silk Roads. Travelling the world as caravan leaders, ...

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