Asia - Central

In the arid Murghab alluvial fan of south-central Turkmenistan, the Bronze and Iron Age campsite Chopantam (UTM 41N, E426997, N4205644) and the urban center Takhirbai-tepe 1 (UTM 41N, E419755, N4213686) were excavated between 2000 and 2002 and in 2006 for...

This grant will be for the study and publication of the final report of the Protohistoric occupation of Ancient Bactra and contemporary sites of Bactra oasis, excavated between 2004 and 2009 by the French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan (DAFA)...

This grant will be for the study and publication of the final report of the excavations led from 2001 to 2012 at Ulug depe by the Turkmen ‐ French Archaeological Mission (MAFTur), directed by O. Lecomte and M. Mamedov (joint project of the French National...

PUBLISHED 2022. Please visit the publication's webpage. The Helmand Sistan Project (HSP) represents the only long-term, comprehensive survey and excavation project ever conducted in southwestern Afghanistan. In the field in the 1970s and sponsored jointly...

The town-site of Yer Kurgan is situated in Kasan District, Qashkadaryo Viloyati, Uzbekistan. It is the second largest in Sogdiana (its area 170 hectares, i.e. 420 acres). Due it is unusual history, Yer-Kurgan is the only significant Sogdian site were the...

The spectacular ruins of Old Kandahar, in south Afghanistan, lie a little to the west of the modern city of the same name. A massive packed clay citadel is surrounded by a large enclosure of eroding mud brick fortifications running across the agricultural...