Yuezhi (Yue-Chi) / Kushans
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Topic: Yuezhi (Yue-Chi) / Kushans
Posted By: Druzhina
Subject: Yuezhi (Yue-Chi) / Kushans
Date Posted: 26-Aug-2016 at 02:20
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Are there many contemporary illustrations of Yuezhi (Yue-Chi) / Kushans? Some I have found are on textiles woven in China, Syria or Bactria with embroidery by the Yuezhi/Kushans of Bactria: http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ancient/Yuezhi-embroidery-Noyon_uul.htm - Yuezhi men embroidered on three pieces of a carpet, Noyon Uul, Mongolia, after 120 BC Similar to the shield of Fig. 3 (3) are http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ancient/Pazyryk-Shield.htm - Pazyryk Culture Wood and Leather Shields, 5th century BC, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ancient/Yuezhi-embroidery-Sampula.htm - Yuezhi spearman on a textile from Tomb No. 1, Sampula (Khotan Prefecture, Xinjiang), after 120 BC Compare this to the http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ancient/Khaltchayan-Armour_bearer.htm - armour-bearer from the frieze of Khaltchayan Reception Hall, 50 BC-50 AD, north Bactria Druzhina http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ancient/Skythian.htm - Scythian, Saka and Sarmatian Illustrations of Costume and Soldiers and Pazyryk Culture, Yuezhi, Parthians, White Huns, Hephthalites and Alchon Huns ------------- http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ottoman/Janissary.htm - Ottoman Janissaries.htm , http://warfare.altervista.org/Persia/nadir_bio.htm - Nadir Shah Afshar of Persia |
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Posted By: medenaywe
Date Posted: 26-Aug-2016 at 07:02
Would You like to post pronounciation of name of Great Chinese wall in Chinese? Thanks in advance! 
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