Abstract

The concept of musical culture includes many components, the most important of which are musical instruments. The purpose of this study is to describe artifacts found on the territory of Turkmenistan, depicting musical instruments, which represent a valuable source of information that reveals amazing facts about the culture and life of the distant ancestors of the Turkmens. Musical instruments and their images found in the excavations of Margush, Ancient Merv and Old Nisa make it possible to reveal interesting facts about the culture of the ancient peoples who inhabited Turkmenistan in ancient times, as well as to reveal their connections with other civilizations.

Keywords

culture of Turkmenistan, organology, musical instruments, archaeological finds of ancient time