Sogdians produced vibrant pre-Muslim Central Asian art peaking 5th-9th centuries. Art featured narrative paintings on house walls depicting stories, banquets, hunts. Metalwork differed from Sasanian with dynamic designs, less massive vessels. Influenced Chinese metalwork, textiles, music via trade and migration. Murals at Afrasiab showed Chinese, Iranian, Indian scenes. Penjikent murals depicted festivals, epics, multi-armed goddesses, Shiva. Varakhsha friezes portrayed gods battling monsters on elephants. Art ceased after Abbasid invasion in 722 AD. Ossuaries illustrated soul's afterlife journey per Mazdaism. Seals portrayed Sogdian merchants' self-images. Traded silver vessels across Silk Road from Crimea to China. Sogdians introduced pipa lute and whirl dance to China. Temples featured murals, altars, theatrical rituals with fire. Islamic conquest damaged or destroyed most works. Sogdians blended Iranian, Indian, Chinese influences in diverse religious art.