Navekat
{{Short description|Ancient Silk Road city}}
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|caption = Ruins of Navekat
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|location = Chüy Region, Kyrgyzstan
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|built = 5-6th century
|abandoned = 12th century
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Navekat or Nevkat {{Cite web| title=Himalayan and central asian studies | url=http://www.himalayanresearch.org/pdf/2012/vol16n1-2012.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128051146/http://www.himalayanresearch.org/pdf/2012/vol16n1-2012.pdf | archive-date=2022-11-28}} was an ancient Silk Road city that flourished between the 6th and 12th centuries. It lies near the modern village of Krasnaya Rechka, in the Chüy Valley, present-day Kyrgyzstan, about 30 kilometers east of Bishkek. It was one of the most important trading centres of the region.[http://mongolschinaandthesilkroad.blogspot.com/2011/07/nevkat-ancient-silk-road-city.html Nevkat – An Ancient Silk Road City] Retrieved 22 May 2018 Navekat was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2014{{Cite web|url=http://www.thesalmons.org/lynn/world.heritage.html|title = UNESCO World Heritage List}} as a part of the site "Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor".
Archaeological site
Navekat had two walls: the first around the Shahristan, the traditional administrative center of this type of city; the second wall was more than {{convert|18|km}} long, with public buildings, markets, gardens and even farms inside. There was a citadel ({{langx|fa|كهندز|kuhandiz}}) in the northeastern part of the city built on a massive earthen platform. The volume of this platform was about 13 million cubic meters, probably the largest man-made mound in the world.
During archaeological excavations, artifacts uncovered included a golden burial mask and an 8-meter-long reclining Buddha statue in one of the two Buddhist temples.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X4mPDgAAQBAJ&q=navekat&pg=PT460|title = Insight Guides Silk Road (Travel Guide eBook)|isbn = 9781786716996|last1 = Guides|first1 = Insight|date = April 2017| publisher=Apa Publications (UK) Limited }} other artifacts demonstrate the presence of Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Eastern Christians, and Manicheans.