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Check out these beauties made by master bowyer Jack Farrell. Saka/ #Scythian composite bows, all natural materials, with authentic core construction and a deer rawhide string.http://www.patreon.com/eranudturan For details of the

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

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