The mysterious East has always aroused genuine interest not only among researchers, but also among ordinary people. The history of Eastern civilization is lost in the depths of not just centuries - millennia. Perhaps it was in the East - in Mahenjo-Daro - that in ancient times humanity first used atomic weapons, and this burned city is a silent warning to future generations. How many secrets does the grandiose terracotta army of the first Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang guard? And do our contemporaries know what they owe to the first Arab travelers and sailors? And there are a great many such mysteries...