Gonur Depe

Mary Region · Turkmenistan

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

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April to June
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The excavated remains of a Bronze Age settlement in the Karakum, center of an ancient oasis civilization along the Murghab River. Its mud-brick palaces, temples and tombs reveal a complex society that flourished thousands of years ago.

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