The site

Panjakent is an ancient Sogdian town whose ruins sit on the outskirts of the modern city of the same name, in western Tajikistan on the river Zeravshan. Occupied between roughly 400 and 800 CE, it was once a thriving settlement of Sogdiana. Today the old town's remains overlook the tugay-vegetated floodplain, near the Sarazm bird sanctuary downstream.

Field notes

civilizations

Sogdian

types

City

occupied

400 CE — 800 CE

country

Tajikistan

elevation

996 m above sea level