Mazar (Sepulchre) of Akhmed Zamchi. Ancient Merv

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1905 • Extinct City, Merv (Extinct City), Turkmenistan

Mazar (Sepulchre) of Akhmed Zamchi. Ancient Merv, Extinct City, Merv (Extinct City), Turkmenistan, 1905

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Mazar (Sepulchre) of Akhmed Zamchi. Ancient Merv — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken between 1905 and 1915 (Extinct City, Merv (Extinct City), Turkmenistan).

Subjects: merv (extinct city), tombs & sepulchral monuments, turkmenistan, domes, asia.

Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.