Shortugai Trading Outpost. Shortugai, Takhar Province.

1978
Shortugai, located on an old meander of the Oxus River (Amu Darya) that forms Afghanistan's border with Central Asia, was a Bronze Age trading post that existed for five or six centuries five to three thousand years ago, ca. 2,000 to 1,000 BCE.
Photo: Louis Dupree

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1978<br />
Shortugai, located on an old meander of the Oxus River (Amu Darya) that forms Afghanistan's border with Central Asia, was a Bronze Age trading post that existed for five or six centuries five to three thousand years ago, ca. 2,000 to 1,000 BCE. <br />
Photo: Louis Dupree