Museum of the Ancient City of Afrosiab

The ancient settlement of Afrosiab, occupying an area of about 200 hectares, used to be the Sogdian capital, called Marakanda. The city is famous for its ancient and unknown history.

Now Afrosiab is just hills that hold many secrets and remember the bustling life that once boiled here. The first excavations began at this place in the late XIX century. Terracotta figurines, samples of pottery, fragments of ossuaries, tools, glassware, coins, women's jewelry and other artifacts were found.

In the opened ancient buildings were found walls decorated with artistic painting, genre paintings, decorated with wooden sculptures, landscape bas-reliefs.

Now in the Museum of the History of the city, which is located in Afrosiab, a huge collection of various artifacts from the period of the ancient history of Samarkand is collected: coins, ceramics, frescoes, knives, arrows and other items found during the excavations of the settlement.