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Lines mark links and orders the records assert. No path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.

37 objects on the Moon · 242 on another body · This reading plate draws no coastline — the graticule and the marks carry the record here; the interactive view draws the sourced Natural Earth outline. Select a mark to read its record.
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3005 BCE

Past → now. Now is 2026, the corpus’s latest recorded state · 1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld) · 865 unlocated

Now · 2026

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Samarkand

Principal city of Sogdiana, in the Zarafshan valley, and the home base of the Sogdian merchant networks that worked the eastern routes.

39.7, 67.0 · exact · c. 7th century BCE - present

On the world

  • A place in: Silk Road · 9 places
  • Joined to: Samarkand — Bukhara · 2 places

Lines mark links and orders the records assert; no path between any two places is recorded.

Connections · 3 of 4

  • connects to Bukhara — Both sit in the Zarafshan valley, roughly 230 km apart, and formed a single commercial and cultural region — the Sogdian heartland, later the Samanid core.
  • is barrier before of Pamir Mountains — The Pamir is the constriction between the Tarim Basin and Sogdiana. A handful of high passes, closed by snow for much of the year, control all traffic reaching Samarkand from the east.
  • is based in of Sogdian merchant networks — Samarkand and the Zarafshan valley were the Sogdian homeland and the origin point of the colony chain that ran east to Chang'an.
Inspect deeply — evidence & provenance →Read the story — Silk Road →

865 objects have no place. See why, and how they relate instead — a coordinate they do not have would be a claim, not a kindness. The count is corpus-wide; no lens or window changes it.One more object is located but its mark is withheld: the coordinate is declared, not yet verified, and an unverified pin reads as a fact.

The places on the Moon

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All located objects · 37

1145 objects · 37 Knowledge Journeys · 852 recorded dated events (3005 BCE–2026), 51 imprecisely dated, and 16 declared future targets (a target never moves Now) · 280 located (1 of them withheld pending verification), 865 unlocated

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