ARCHAEOLOGY MAGAZINE:
A Silk Road Renaissance. Excavations in Tajikistan have unveiled a city of merchant princes that flourished from the fifth to the eighth century A.D (Eric A. Powell). The Sogdians are of interest to PaleoJudaica because they preserved the Book of Giants in one or more translations into their language. Fragments of the Sogdian Book of Giants survive today.
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