The costume of this figure tells us that this is a Sogdian (pronounced Sog-di-en). Sogdians were people who inhabited an area called Sogdiana, in modern-day Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. They were ...

The expansive exhibition, on view through February 23, looks at how commerce, ideas, and religion crisscrossed the world.

But the Islamic kingdoms did, of course, obtain slaves militarily; when Samarkand was besieged in 712 in the Islamic conquest of the city states of Sogdiana, at the heart of the trade routes ...

"Inspired by bowls, cups, and other functional objects imported from West and Central Asia, they perfected metalworking techniques introduced from Iran and Sogdiana." And in this age of Tang ...