cradle of civilization, rumored to be ancient mesopotamia, ancient egypt, the indus valley, enza and huangjepecial places is the foothills. in turkmenistan, it has developed here the oldest farming society known as the anau culture. agricultural civilizations began as a chain of oases. such a belt from the nile delta through. palestine, the northern part of syria, iraq, iran, this is the so-called fertile crescent. further north lived primitive people who were hunters and gatherers. anau seems to be located a long way from this crescent, but people have always settled near water everywhere, most often in river valleys. what an ancient civilization in the karakum desert. everything is very simple: from the kapedag mountains, they are behind me, in those distant times, thousands of years ago , huge streams descended and... the land along the slopes became fertile, and here, in this place, dozens, if not hundreds of ancient settlements were formed. all our historical civilizations, which are the bronze age and beyond, they were all formed on the banks of rivers, cities, which, for example, the