The city of Termez is one of the oldest cities in the world. Based on the excavations carried out in the old Kurgan part of Termez, as well as the analysis of written sources, it became known that the city was founded in the middle of the I millennium BC. On the banks of Oksa (Amudarya). Trade and economic relations were established with such ancient state formations in Asia as Sogdiana, Khorezm, Margiana and Parthia, as well as with India.