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The Sogdian Letters: Silk Road Spies and a Forgotten Language
Before the Silk Road was a romantic idea, it was a network of real people speaking real languages. This episode dives into the Sogdian Ancient Letters — a cache of fifth-century correspondence found in a ruined watchtower in the Gobi Desert. Written in a now-dead Eastern Iranian language, these letters reveal a world of spies, abandoned wives, and stranded merchants. Lucas and Luna trace the story of Miwnay, a Sogdian woman left behind in Dunhuang, and the network of Sogdian traders who connected China to Persia. They explore how the Sogdians became the invisible backbone of the Silk Road…
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