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Djarkutan

A Bronze Age proto-town near Sherabad in southern Uzbekistan, with a citadel, a fire temple, craft quarters and a large cemetery.

Archaeology2nd millennium BCAbout 1 hour to see

About the place

Djarkutan was a settlement of farmers and herders in the second half of the 2nd millennium BC, at the time when people in this part of Bactria were settling into permanent towns. It was discovered in 1973 and has been dug by Uzbek and international teams since.

Excavations uncovered a walled central fort, a temple linked to fire worship, a potters' quarter, metal workshops, mud-brick houses on narrow streets, and more than a thousand graves. The site stands on a loess rise in Sherabad district, about 50 km north-west of Termez; what you see today are low earthen ruins in open country.

Why go

  • One of the key Bronze Age sites of Central Asia
  • Remains of an early fire temple
  • Open landscape of the Sherabad plain

Sources (5)

  1. 1.Wikidata
  2. 2.en.wikipedia.org
  3. 3.ru.wikipedia.org
  4. 4.uz.wikipedia.org
  5. 5.openstreetmap.org

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