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The Bactrian Gold Was Only Part of the Story
How the Hephthalites — the so-called White Huns — dominated Central Asia for a century, fighting Sassanid Persia and Gupta India, before vanishing from history. We follow their rise from vassals to empire, their unique polyandrous marriage customs, their booming trade in silk and slaves along the Silk Road, and the mystery of their origins. New archaeological evidence from Tajikistan and Afghanistan sheds light on how these nomads built a vast realm from the Oxus to the Indus, only to be crushed by a Sogdian–Turkic alliance. Lucas and Luna explore why the Hephthalites left no cities, no coins…
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