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0374 Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.1
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of the ruins of an
broken here and t
of large dimension
from east to west
fied landscape.
of Merv were surr
lution which elast
appear to have bee
under cultivation,
the kurgans sugge
In civilizing of C
is elucidating the
thought to have be
tpns of Asia.

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is of two distinct
ent ruins, which
and bricks, and co
alls, round towers
and the mile of w
half is in many cas
the al belong to the
ame we are not now
would probably lead t

The older ruins
nmerous flat-toppe
so abundant that th
might have made th
ding on the extrem
investigated and of
Russian s-verst ma
in the region direc
Merv. In addition
the thick and lofty
blocks, as at Kir