Category: Central Asia
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Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
Link to review: Who’s the barbarian now? Empires of the Silk Road
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Of Iran, Turan, and Turks
There’s a new paper out in The European Journal of Human Genetics which is of great interest because it surveys the genetic and linguistic affinities of two dozen ethno-linguistic groups from the three Central Asian nations of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. This is what the Greeks referred to as Transoxiana, and the Persians as […]