Afrasiyab

Samarkand · Uzbekistan

Afrasiyab, Uzbekistan
Photo: Artist 1170-1220 CE, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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The vast mounded ruins of ancient Samarkand, occupied from before the Achaemenid era until its Mongol destruction. Excavations here uncovered vivid Sogdian wall paintings now displayed in an on-site museum.

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