The symposium will be held on Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 July 2025 at the ENS, in the Jean Jaurès amphitheatre (entrance via 28 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris).
In collaboration with: Collège de France, Fondation Hugot, Institute for the Study of the Ancient Worlds New-York University, P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for Silk Road Studies.
This conference is intended as a second part of the conference "Reconstructing Sogdiana. Discoveries and historical narratives" which was held on 11-12 Aril 2025 at the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies (UC Berkeley), in partnership with the Collège de France and the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (New York University). The aim is to produce an up-to-date and chronologically balanced survey of the numerous new documents, archaeological operations and correlated problematics, which shed light on the history of Sogdiana (the ancient country of Samarkand and Bukhara, the node of the Silk Roads), between the Late Bronze Age (beginning c. 1500 BCE) and the pre-Mongol Islamic period (prior to 1220 CE).