Sultangala is the largest historical part of Ancient Merv. Its name translates to "sultan's fortress" from Turkmen language.
At present, Ancient Merv is a designated State Historical and Cultural Park located near the modern city of Mary in Turkmenistan. Established in 1987, it is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
In the average Western history textbook, Central Asia occupies a rather modest position that does not correspond to reality.
From above, thin, winding lines stretch across the foothills of the Kopetdag Mountains.
They’re qanats — ancient underground aqueducts.
Turkmenistan became a UNESCO member in 1993, and the country established its National Commission for UNESCO in 1997.
Sarahs is an oasis city in the Ahal velayat (province) of Turkmenistan, the administrative center of the Sarahs etrap (district). In the early Middle Ages, it was one of the oases of the ancient Silk Road, lying between Mashhad in the west and Merv in the east.
Abiverd, also known as Abiward or Abi-ward, was an important ancient Sassanian city in the Ahal velayat (province) of modern-day Turkmenistan.
Ovliya (from Turkmen, Arabic auliya' - "saints") is the most common name for "sacred" places in Turkmenistan. There are at least 700 "sacred" places in the country, from twenty to thirty or more in each of its etraps (districts).
In April 2023, after a four-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Russia-Turkmenistan Margiana Archaeological Expedition resumed its research in Margiana at the base of the Anthropoecology Center of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Khаrakum. The expedition was interrupted during the mawssum period, when archaeological findings were […]
The State Historical and Cultural Park “Ancient Merv” is the oldest and most completely preserved of the oasis cities along the Silk Roads in Central Asia. It is located in the territory of Mary velayat of Turkmenistan. It has supported a series of urban centres since the 3rd millennium BC and played an important role […]