Uzbek law had to be changed to allow the country’s most prized artefacts to travel to the UK: detail from the south wall of the ‘Hall of the Ambassadors’ in ...
Imagine diving into a lake and discovering the remnants of a bustling ancient city that once thrived along the legendary Silk Road. This intriguing scenario recently became a reality for ...
The waters of Lake Issyk-Kul have hidden an important Silk Road city ever since an earthquake shifted the region’s landscape.
Once a crossroads of empires and ideas, Uzbekistan remains one of the best-preserved witnesses to the Silk Road’s influence ...
"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. The creation of the Silk Road -- The road of faiths -- The road to a Christian East -- The road to revolution -- The road to concord -- The road of furs -- ...
Associate Professor Elmira Jafarova, Leading Researcher at the Department of History and Theory of Archaeological Heritage of ...
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Archaeologists May Have Found the Lost Iron City of the Silk Road in the Remote Highlands of Uzbekistan
The temperature hours ago climbed past 104 degrees, and the taxi’s air-conditioning is struggling to keep up. We are barreling across the lush plains of Uzbekistan on a midsummer afternoon. Then, ...
We’re in Sheki, a magical little UNESCO World Heritage city tucked up against the thickly wooded foothills of Azerbaijan’s Greater Caucasus Mountains, on a rare tour of the silk factory which for ...
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