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The Lost City of Paikend: Silk Road Merchants and the Bukharan Frontier
Long before Samarkand's blue-tiled glory, a frontier city of merchants and warriors ruled the desert edge of Bukhara. Lucas and Luna explore Paikend — the 'City of Merchants' that dominated caravans between Merv and Bukhara for over a thousand years. They discuss how Paikend's wealthy traders built independent fortifications, how its coinage funded the Sogdian-Samanid economy, and why the city vanished after the Mongol invasion. The episode follows the 2019 archaeological discoveries that revealed a pre-Islamic fire temple, a vast pottery district, and evidence of a…
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