The site

Yarkhoto, the Jiaohe ruins near Turpan in Xinjiang, China, is a city carved into a leaf-shaped plateau between two deep river valleys, a natural fortress atop steep cliffs. It served as capital of the Tocharian kingdom of Jushi and stood as an important stop along the Silk Road. Occupied for some sixteen centuries, its clay-cut streets and buildings remain among the best-preserved of any Silk Road city.

Field notes

civilizations

Imperial ChinaSogdian

types

City

occupied

200 BCE — 1,400 CE

country

China