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“Long Walls” in Ancient Chorasmia and Central Asia

Gairatdin KhozhaniyazovResearch Institute of the Humanities, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Karakalpak branch Karakalpak-Australian Expedition to Ancient Chorasmia (KAE)

Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberiajournal2018en

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Abstract

Abstract The Ancient Chorasmian “long wall” of Dévkesken, part of a larger complex situated on a projection of the semi-arid Ustyurt Plateau in today’s Karakalpakstan, is discussed in this paper in light of similar defensive barriers erected in pre-Islamic Central Asia.

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Eurasian Exchange Networks Byzantine Studies and History Linguistics and Cultural Studies

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DOI: 10.1163/15700577-12341330

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