Bunjikat

Sughd Province · Tajikistan

Bunjikat, Tajikistan
Photo: Painter of the murals: undetermined (8th-9th century CE artist) Photographer: Christoph Baumer, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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The ruined capital of the medieval principality of Ustrushana near Shahristan. Excavations uncovered palaces with carved wooden columns and vivid murals of the pre-Islamic period.

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