many years later, this note caught the eye of the american professor rafael pompelli.ately seized by the idea of conducting more detailed excavations in turkmen soil. it's 1904, and the big game in asia is going on, but pompel receives... permission for an expedition to turkmenistan. by the way, this was the first foreign archaeological expedition that was allowed into turkmenistan. at the same time, pompellier himself is not an archaeologist, but a geologist, so most likely, he was personally interested in the underground resources of this region. by that time , oil development was already in full swing in the caspian sea, this region along khreptaka pidaga remained little studied. pompelli, partly a cover for the legend, but definitely. out of scientific interest, he takes into his team one of the most famous archaeologists of his time, hubber schmitt, the same one who participated in the excavations of troy, but if everything about troy at that time was already more or less known, then the finds made by vanau opened up a truly new chapter in the history of the for