Sarianidi Victor I., Dubova Nadezhda A., Samurskiy Kirill S. Treasures of ancient Margiana. Photoalbum

Monograph. — Moscow: Staryi Sad, 2020. — 180 p.The first edition of this book came out in the autumn of 2013 in Ashgabat with a welcome speech by the Turkmen leader Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. "Treasures of ancient Margiana" was the last book to be published during the life of Viktor Sarianidi, the pioneer and explorer of the new center of ancient Eastern civilization on the land of Turkmenistan. This book is second revised and completed edition, which in a popular form narrates about the Bactria-Margiana archaeological culture (BMAC), also known as the Oxus Civilization. This culture existed in the late 3rd – mid 2nd millennium BC in the South of Central Asia and in the part of Afghanistan, adjacent to Amu Darya. The book presents the main findings made during the excavations of BMAC settlements in the ancient delta of the Murghab River in the southeastern Kara Kum desert (Turkmenistan). This center of the ancient Eastern civilization was discovered by Soviet archaeologists in the 1970s, and by now the fieldworks have been underway for the fifth decade. The findings show that the culture that existed here had extensive connections with the Indus, Mesopotamian, Eastern Mediterranean and Achaean Greek civilizations.