Black Sands (2010)

It has been said that no human has ever set foot in the Karakum desert... until Victor Sarianidi discovered that in the black sands of the desert, on the 3rd millennium BC, flourished a fifth civilization... the lost civilization of Margiana. After 45 years of excavations in central Asia and for the first time during his brilliant career, Victor Sarianidi reveals the magnificent palace with its monumental architecture, the tools, ceramics, and jewelery of semiprecious stones, and evidence of proto-Zoroastrian objects and rituals.