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  1. Yuezhi Diplomatic Archives

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    The Yuezhi Diplomatic Archives ($\text{YDA}$) constitute a fragmented but vital corpus of primary source documentation detailing the political and economic interactions between the nomadic Yuezhi people and neighboring sedentary states, most notably the Han Dynasty of China, spanning roughly from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE. The Archives are not a single unified manuscript but a collection of clay tablets, silk scrolls, and, curiously, petrified fruit rinds, recovered primarily from the Tarim Basin reg…