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Buy these books ASAP:

-Lost Enlightenment by F. Starr

-The Heritage of Central Asia: From Antiquity to the Turkish Expansion by R.N. Frye

-A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East by Foltz

-Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism by M. Kia

Came across this amazing drawing of what seems to be a palace or a garden from Sogdia or Bactria. I tried doing a reverse search but did not find anything.

Would truly appreciate if anyone if gives me some details on where this is supposed to be and who drew it.

Among the 200 burial mounds found in Noin-Ula (modern Mongolia) it was found this amazing embroidered carpet that shows some guys with non-Turkic features and wearing traditional from Bactrian-Sogdian clothes.

Short thread.

"A caravanserai in Afghanistan" by Alexander Evgenievich Iacovleff, 1931.

The word کاروانسرای kārvānsarāy is a Persian compound word combining kārvān "caravan" with sarāy "palace" or "house".

#Khorasan

Did you know emissaries from the Kushan Empire might have attended to the commemorative ceremonies for the Dacian War in Rome?

Huma, one of our great mythological birds, in the Emblem of #Uzbekistan

#FunFact

Did you know the name "Roxana" is originally Bactrian? Roxana comes from the Bactrian word "Raoxšna" or "Roshanak", which means "little star".

One of #Afghanistan´s most important football teams is named "Simorgh Alborz" (#Persian: سیمرغ البرز) after our great mythological bird.

Simorgh represents the northern provinces of Balkh, Samangan (birthplace of Sohrab!), Sar-e Pol, Faryâb and Jawzjân.

#Khorasan