Khalchayan

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Chaltschajan the remains are an ancient town in the south of present-day Uzbekistan located at Surxondaryo. The site was excavated in 1959 and 1963 in part. In particular, the remains of a palace -a-days, which was richly decorated with painted clay sculptures, which in turn belong to the most important sculptures of Central Asia came. Chaltschajan was probably founded in the second century BC by the Yuezhi. The palace probably dates to the first century AD, and thus under the Kushan, who had emerged from the Yuezhi. The figures obtained are mainly due to their realism is important. Some of them probably represent rulers, so that also believed that it was here the remains of a temple for a ruler cult. There were also the remains of wall paintings, but they were poorly preserved.