ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF SOURKHAN DARIA REGION

Probably one of Uzbekistan's most beautiful museums, opened in April 2003 with the help of many partner countries, primarily France and Japan. In several well delineated and intelligent spaces, the various historical periods have been presented, from the origins of the region to the Chaybanides by Buddhism and Timur. Models of different monuments sometimes give a better overview of sites than ruins of ruins, rather frustrating, unless accompanied by an archaeologist. Films projected in English in each room are also a very good source of information not only on the history of the region, but also on past or ongoing archaeological missions. The first nine rooms bring together over 50 000 archaeological discoveries in the region. Among the most recent remarkable pieces, note the beautiful statue of Greco-bactrienne women dressed in flames. The tenth room is actually a safe: it contains many pieces of Turkmen and Turkmen coins and jewellery, or gold or silver agfhans from the Greco-bactrienne era until the th s. Deu small buttons of gold, found on the clothes of a child skeleton discovered at Fayaz Tepa and dated from the VIIIe n. B.I. have established that the site was inhabited well. before the fourth N.B.B. as it was assumed until then. The museum director, Ismoïl Temirovitch, is very available to tell stories and provide explanations.