Museum of Afrasiab

The Afrasiab Museum is a historical museum in the city of Samarkand, which is dedicated to the period of the founding of the city and its further development.

The Afrasiab Museum is located in the south-east of the settlement of Afrasiab, near the complex of ancient tombs of Shahi-Zinda and other important historical monuments, in the northern part of Samarkand. The museum building was built in 1970 according to the project of the Armenian architect Bagdasar Arzumanyan. It houses five halls - archeology, the early history of Samarkand until the VI century, the history of the conquests of Alexander the Great, the main religion of the city until the IV century - Zoroastrianism and the spiritual life of Samarkand.

In the museum you can see artifacts found during the excavations of the Afrasiab settlement: coins, ceramic jewelry, arrows, blades, knives, as well as amazing frescoes of the ancient palace of the VII-VIII centuries and individual samples of paintings of the VI-VII centuries.