Dayuan
Videos
Dayuan is the Chinese exonym for a country that existed in Ferghana valley in Central Asia, described in the Chinese historical works of Records of the Grand Historian and the Book of Han. It is menti
Probable Greek soldier (maybe king according to royal headband), woolen wall hanging, Sampul tapestry, 3rd–2nd century BCE, Sampul, Urumqi Xinjiang Museum.
Silver tetradrachm of King Eucratides I, who probably lost the territory of Ferghana to the Sakas.
A Saka (Scythian) horseman from the area north of the Tian Shan, Pazyryk, c.300 BCE.
Zhang Qian leaving emperor Han Wudi, for his expedition to Central Asia from 138 to 126 BCE, Mogao Caves mural, 618–712 CE.
Fergana Valley
Videos
The Fergana Valley in Central Asia crosses eastern Uzbekistan, southern Kyrgyzstan and northern Tajikistan.
Dayuan
…Tayuan; Chinese: 大宛; pinyin: Dàyuān; lit. 'Great Ionians'; Middle Chinese dâiC-jwɐn < LHC: dɑh-ʔyɑn) is the Chinese exonym for a country that existed in Ferghana valley in Central Asia, described in the Chinese historical works of Records of the Grand Historian and the Book of Han. It is mentioned in the accounts of…
Two snakes, Sokh, Ferghana valley, 3rd millennium BCE.
The gilt-bronze sculpture known as the “Ferghana Horse” or “Heavenly Horse”, dating to the 4th–1st centuries BCE, depicted in the flexed-suspension V-gallop phase and interpreted as a material expression of a broader Eurasian cosmic-horse tradition.
Statue of Weshparkar, Ferghana Kingdom, 7th century