#Sogdian

Nadeem | Eran ud Turan

eranudturan

The world’s earliest surviving “#Shahnameh” (ok not quite, more on this below) is not from #Iran and not even in #Persian, but painted on the walls of a #Sogdian private

Nadeem | Eran ud Turan

eranudturan

The Sogdians are famously known as traders across the “#SilkRoad,” so you’d expect a ton of foreign goods in their material culture, right?WRONG One of the most common imported good

Historians of Iran

HistorianofIran

1/21I argue that 3 sets of 8c Sogdian wall paintings, which depict men drinking from rhyta, show parameters & protocols of a lively drinking game. we are going back to

Historians of Iran

HistorianofIran

1/16 the Sogdian formal banquet takes us to a gathering room in a large house in the residential district of 8c CE Panjikent (present-day Tajikistan). a built-in bench lined this

Historians of Iran

HistorianofIran

1/5Why did diverse members of diverse communities across Central Eurasia all wear a kaftan? The kaftan’s unique combination of design features provided a sartorial language that could articulate mutable social

Jin Xu

xujnx

1900.6.22 A hidden “library” was found at Mogao Caves in Dunhuang. Sealed behind a wall ca. 1000 AD, it's packed with tens of thousands of manuscripts & paintings dating to

Scripturient

56Dtweets

A thread on #Sogdia; it's people, History and it's religions/deities; some of whom correspond to Sanatan ones!Please RT, follow if you like it! Sogdians were Iranic people whose homeland, Sogdiana,

Nemets

Peter_Nimitz

Thread with excerpts from “The Silk Road: A New History” by Valerie Hansen Many government, trade, legal, & personal documents survive due to the reuse of paper. It was expensive,

History of Central Asia and Khorâsan

BiruniKhorasan

Thread about carpets in the Persianate world (Afghanistan, Central Asia, Iran and by extension the Indian Subcontinent). Carpets most likely originated somewhere in northern modern Iran, around the Caspian Sea,

AfghanHindu

HinduAfghan

#Hinduism in the #Afghan Frontier, a glorious history of resilience and heroism unparalleled in human history.#Megathread #Hinduism #Afghanistan Somewhere in the pages of history, a story of courage and bravery

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LivingQurtuva

The Umayyads in Asia: The Contact with Tibet and the Tang (700-742).[THREAD] In the 600s, the Arabs had began their conquest under Islam. In the 640s, Persia had entirely been

History of Central Asia and Khorâsan

BiruniKhorasan

Going to start a new thread about battles, tactics, armies, warriors and military titles in Eastern and Western Iranic lands, right under this tweet. At the Battle of Gaugamela (October