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wrote as the place where caravans from the
Chinese and Roman Empires met and exchanged goods. Other scholars, however, disagree with this identification, though it remains one of four most probable sites for the Stone Tower.
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Central Asia, the Early Stage: 125 bc–ad 23. Leiden: Brill
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