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Khalchayan

1st century BCE–1st century CE · 1st century BCE

Khalchayan is an archaeological site in the Surkhandarya region of southern Uzbekistan, excavated by Galina Pugachenkova from 1959. A hall or palace there was decorated with painted clay sculptures of nomad rulers, warriors and deities in Hellenistic style, dated to around the 1st century BCE, which are among the earliest images of the Yuezhi and Kushan elite.

Khalchayan
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Khalchayan. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/khalchayan
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