The collection is devoted to the important problem of ethno-cultural relations between the peoples of the Ancient East and the surrounding world. Publication in its main part - publication of reports read in 1998. at the conference dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the largest specialist in the field of history, history of culture, archeology of Central and Central Asia, a real member of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, Professor B. A. Lithuanian . The subjects of the articles of the collection are very wide - the Paleolithic of Central Asia, archeology and history of the culture of this vast region and its neighboring territories in antiquity, archeology and history of the early Middle Ages, ethnology ..