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The Silk Road's Lost Language: Sogdian Merchants of Uzbekistan
Long before the Timurids or the Shaibanids, the Sogdian people dominated the Silk Road from their Central Asian homelands around Samarkand and Bukhara. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the fascinating world of the Sogdians — their language, their vast trade network stretching from Byzantium to China, and their role as cultural intermediaries who spread Buddhism, Manichaeism, and Nestorian Christianity across Asia. They discuss the Sogdian script that gave rise to the Uyghur and Mongolian alphabets, the discovery of the Mount Mugh archives that shed light on Sogdian society, and the…
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