Fergana Valley
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The Fergana Valley in Central Asia crosses eastern Uzbekistan, southern Kyrgyzstan and northern Tajikistan.
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.
Probable Greek soldier in the Sampul tapestry, woollen wall hanging, 3rd-2nd century BC, Sampul, Urumqi Xinjiang Museum.
Statue of Weshparkar, Ferghana Kingdom, 7th century
Sogdia
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Sogdia or Sogdiana was an ancient Iranian civilization between the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya rivers, and in present-day Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Sogdiana was
Sogdian soldier circa 338 BCE, tomb of Artaxerxes III.
Sogdians on an Achaemenid Persian relief from the Apadana of Persepolis, offering tributary gifts to the Persian king Darius I, 5th century BC
Head of a Saka warrior, as a defeated enemy of the Yuezhi, from Khalchayan, northern Bactria, 1st century BCE.
A Yuezhi (left) fighting a Sogdian behind a shield (right), Noin-Ula carpet, 1st century BC/AD.