Nisa

Ahal · Turkmenistan

Nisa, Turkmenistan
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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April to May and September to October
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The mounded ruins of a Parthian royal city at the foot of the Kopet Dag, once a seat of kings. Excavations uncovered fortified palaces, treasuries and rare ivory drinking horns from the ancient empire.

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