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Excavation ongoing places in Tajikistan matching “Central Asia” · Mysteria

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Excavation ongoing places in Tajikistan matching “Central Asia”

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🇹🇯 Tajikistan · Ancient city

Proto-urban Site of Sarazm

Afanasievo to Sarazm Chalcolithic–Bronze Age · Sarazm culture (Central Asian proto-Bactrian)

Earliest proto-urban centre in Central Asia (4000–2000 BCE) in Zarafshan Valley, Tajikistan's first UNESCO site (2010), 100 ha town with irrigation canals, palace, fortified citadel and aeolian…