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3 unusual facts about Afrasiab


Afrasiab

According to Avestan sources, Afrasiab was killed by Haoma near the Čīčhast (possibly either referring to Lake Hamun in Sistan or some unknown lake in today's Central Asia), and according to Shahnameh he met his death in a cave known as the Hang-e Afrasiab, or the dying place of Afrasiab, on a mountaintop in Azerbaijan.

Afrasiyab

Afrasiab - a sorcerer and emperor who appears in the Persian epic Shahnameh and later in the Urdu Dastaan and Tilism-e-Hoshruba.

Mihr 'Ali

Until 1985, it was thought that all of the paintings in this series had been destroyed, but three have since been discovered and authenticated, those being portraits of Afrasiyab, Genghis Khan, and Kay Khusraw, though the Kay Khusraw portrait does not exist in its full form but has been reduced to only some 80% of its original size.


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