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    Issyk inscription The Issyk inscription is a yet undeciphered text, possibly in the Kushan script, found in 1969 on a silver bowl in Issyk kurgan in Kazakhstan...
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    an inscription. The finds are on display in Astana. It is associated with the Saka peoples. The burial complex located on the left bank of the Issyk Mountain...
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    Issyk-Kul (Russian: Иссык-Куль) or Ysyk-Köl (Kyrgyz: Ысык-Көл, [ɯsɯk kœl], "Warm Lake") is an endorheic (i.e., without outflow) saline lake in the western...
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    these inscriptions remains disputed (given that nobody has definitively identified the alphabet or translated the content). The Issyk inscription is not...
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  • of Central Asia between 600-200 BCE (depending on the age of the Issyk inscription) and 700 CE, including the Kushan Empire, associated with the nomads...
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    BC. Issyk inscription, Kazakhstan, c. 4th century BC. Kushan script, c. 2nd century BC – 7th century AD, partially deciphered. Issyk inscription Cretan...
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    Iranian languages Wakhi and Pashto. The Issyk inscription, a short fragment on a silver cup found in the Issyk kurgan in Kazakhstan is believed to be the...
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    alphabets, as suggested by V. Thomsen, or possibly via Kharosthi (cf., Issyk inscription). Brahmi script was also possibly derived or inspired by Aramaic....
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    Bilingual Rock Inscription, also known as the Kandahar Edict of Ashoka and less commonly as the Chehel Zina Edict, is an inscription in the Greek and...
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    Barskoon (category Populated places in Issyk-Kul Region)
    Persian: بارسغان) is a settlement on the southern shore of Lake Issyk Kul in the Issyk-Kul Region of Kyrgyzstan. Its population was 9,040 in 2021. It is...
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    modern-day Kyrgyzstan, located in the Chüy Valley between Bishkek and the Issyk-Kul lake. Located along the Silk Road, the ruins of the city were inscribed...
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    Northern India, at least as far as Saketa and Sarnath, near Varanasi, where inscriptions have been found dating to the era of the Kushan emperor Kanishka the...
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  • the Talas, Issyk-Kul and Kochkor. They were written with the Yenisei variants of the Orkhon alphabet. It is believed that these inscriptions were also...
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    Ashoka inscriptions thought to have belonged to a stone building. The beginning and the end of the fragment are lacking, which suggests the inscription was...
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    quantities of precious golden jewelry. Remains of a "golden man" (similar to the Issyk kurgan golden man) were found in 2003, with 4262 gold finds. Flying deer...
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    Beshbalik Mongolia Noin-Ula burial site Kazakhstan Begash Issyk kurgan Jankent Karsakpay inscription Kerderi Krasnyi Yar Merke Turkic Sanctuaries Otrar Petroglyphs...
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    The Aramaic inscription of Kandahar is an inscription on a fragment of a block of limestone (24x18 cm) discovered in the ruins of Old Kandahar, Afghanistan...
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    Beshbalik Mongolia Noin-Ula burial site Kazakhstan Begash Issyk kurgan Jankent Karsakpay inscription Kerderi Krasnyi Yar Merke Turkic Sanctuaries Otrar Petroglyphs...
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    archaeological discoveries from the Ukraine to the Altai, particularly at Issyk in Kazakhstan... at Pazyryk... and Ak-Alakha" "Ice Mummies: Siberian Ice...
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    Beshbalik Mongolia Noin-Ula burial site Kazakhstan Begash Issyk kurgan Jankent Karsakpay inscription Kerderi Krasnyi Yar Merke Turkic Sanctuaries Otrar Petroglyphs...
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    Beshbalik Mongolia Noin-Ula burial site Kazakhstan Begash Issyk kurgan Jankent Karsakpay inscription Kerderi Krasnyi Yar Merke Turkic Sanctuaries Otrar Petroglyphs...
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    Beshbalik Mongolia Noin-Ula burial site Kazakhstan Begash Issyk kurgan Jankent Karsakpay inscription Kerderi Krasnyi Yar Merke Turkic Sanctuaries Otrar Petroglyphs...
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    Beshbalik Mongolia Noin-Ula burial site Kazakhstan Begash Issyk kurgan Jankent Karsakpay inscription Kerderi Krasnyi Yar Merke Turkic Sanctuaries Otrar Petroglyphs...
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  • The Karsakpay inscription (also called the Timur's stone) is a message carved on April 28, 1391 into a fragment of rock in Ulu Tagh mountainside near...
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    the Later Han, Book 221. Inscriptions at the site mention the king of Samarkand Varkhuman. Written in Sogdian, the inscription, reads: When King Varkhuman...
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    "Golden Man", who presents some parallels with similar "Golden men" found in Issyk kurgan or the kurgan at Shilikty. Long swords with T-shaped pommel and long...
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    Beshbalik Mongolia Noin-Ula burial site Kazakhstan Begash Issyk kurgan Jankent Karsakpay inscription Kerderi Krasnyi Yar Merke Turkic Sanctuaries Otrar Petroglyphs...
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    Nestorian tombstone with inscriptions in Syriac, found in Issyk Kul, dated 1312...
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    Beshbalik Mongolia Noin-Ula burial site Kazakhstan Begash Issyk kurgan Jankent Karsakpay inscription Kerderi Krasnyi Yar Merke Turkic Sanctuaries Otrar Petroglyphs...
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    the Prophet Muhammad: Approaching the Landscape and Cultural Heritage of Issyk-Ata". Genius Loci: Laszlovszky 60. Budapest: Archaeolingua. pp. 343–348...
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