Altyn-Depe
Masson, V. M. / Michael, Henry N.![Altyn-Depe](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/446/4467313/CHSBZCOP034467313.jpg)
The excavations at the Bronze Age site of Altyn-Depe in southwest Soviet Central Asia (Turkmenistan) have revealed an urban community dating to the Middle Bronze Age. The region of Turkmenistan forms a natural crossroads between Eastern Iran and Central Asia, and between Siberia and southern Russia and the Indus Valley. Altyn-Depe was important not only for its development as a cultural center in its own right but as a link between the various...