Uzbekistan
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On the History of the Ancient Town of Vardana and the Obavija Feud
http://www.transoxiana.com.ar/Eran/Articles/adylov_mirzaakhmedov.html
Article by S. T. Adylov and J. K. Mirzaahmedov. In the territory of the ancient irrigated land of Bukhara, at about 7 km in northeast direction from the provincial center of Safirkhan, lie the ruins of an ancient town called by the local people Kurgan-Vardanzeh.
Anghilak Cave: Documenting Neandertal Occupation at the Periphery
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/Glantz/glantz.html
In 1938, Okladnikov excavated the cave site of Teshik-Tash in the Baisun region of Uzbekistan and found a complete cranium of a Neandertal child. This discovery anchored the eastern boundary of the Neandertal range
The Costume of Foreign Embassies and Inhabitants of Samarkand
http://www.transoxiana.com.ar/0108/yatsenko-afrasiab_costume.html
Describes a wall painting discovered in 1965 in the central part of the ruins of ancient Samarkand as a valuable source on the history of western Turkestan.