Turquoise domes
On the roof.
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A museum opened in 2002 to mark Termez's 2,500th anniversary, in a modern building with a roof of turquoise domes and a tiled façade. It shows the archaeology of Surxondaryo, Uzbekistan's far south on the Amu Darya. Most of its finds date from the Graeco-Bactrian and Kushan periods, when the region was a corridor between Central Asia and India: carved column capitals, reliefs and pottery, along with glazed Islamic ceramics from later centuries. There are scale models of the ancient sites around Termez, such as Fayaz Tepe, Kampyr Tepe and Khalchayan, and some of its famous pieces are copies whose originals are in Tashkent's State Museum of History and the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg. Among its best-known exhibits is the wall painting known as the «Princess of Tokharistan». Tickets are about 50,000 som, with roughly the same again for photography, per visitor guides. It makes a good first stop before the sites around the city, since it explains what you will see there.
On the roof.
Around Termez.
Islamic era.
Central Termez
It has models and finds from the sites around the city, so it explains what you will see at Fayaz Tepe, Kara Tepe and the rest.