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Places tagged “zarafshan”

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🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Rock art

Sarmishsay Upper Terrace Petroglyphs

Early Bronze to Early Islamic · Andronovo, Bactrian, Sogdian, Turkic, Samanid

Upper bench 80 m above gorge floor with caravan and Kufic mosque petroglyphs.

✓VerifiedUNESCO

🇹🇯 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…