Explore the story of a silver shaft-hole axe from the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (also known as the Oxus Civilization). We dive into its iconography, Bronze Age materials, casting ...

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"As the name suggests, these materials were previously thought to be confined primarily to the regions of Margiana (modern Turkmenistan) and Bactria (northern Afghanistan and Uzbekistan). However, ...

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Yet Greek-Russian archaeologist Viktor Sarianidi has uncovered just that since his expedition began in 1972. He says Gonur-depe was the capital or imperial city, as he prefers to call it of a complex, ...

Archaeologists in Iran have unearthed the lavish grave of a teenager who lived more than 3,000 years ago, when the region was part of the Greater Khorasan Civilization. The woman died at about age 18, ...

20:48, Fri, Oct 29, 2021 Updated: 20:49, Fri, Oct 29, 2021 A century after their discovery in the Taklaman Desert, archaeologists have finally identified the mummies' ancient ancestry. Until now, the ...

The Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, founded by Reinhold Merkelbach und Ludwig Koenen in 1967, publishes four to five volumes per year, altogether 162 volumes since 1967. It publishes ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...