Samarkand, Uzbekistan - Recen Samarkand, an ancient city in Uzbekistan with a history spanning thousands of years, is ...

For travellers, the so-called “Stans”, and cities like Samarkand and Almaty, have magnetic appeal. The ancient silk industry itself is bound up with legends about Chinese tea-sipping empresses ...

Archaeologists have mapped two lost Silk Road cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan that were inexplicably abandoned hundreds ...

Immerse yourself in the rich history as you explore the silk road cities of Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva. Explore their links to ancient astronomy and learn about how ancient cultures ...

Coming in 2025, the Golden Eagle Silk Road Express offers all new adventures along the storied Silk Road trading route.

Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have used ancient DNA to challenge long-held interpretations of the people of Pompeii. Contrary to physical appearances, the DNA evidence revealed unexpected ...

Though many significant treasures were demolished by the Bolsheviks, Uzbekistan still has much to discover – Khiva, Bukhara and Samarkand are ... known to the ancient Greeks as the Oxus.

The discovery suggests that trade routes along the Silk Road were far more complex than previously understood. By Alexander Nazaryan Michael Frachetti was on an archaeological dig high in the ...

Samarkand, Uzbekistan – Air Samarkand has announced a new service to Phú Quốc, the largest island in Vietnam, in partnership ...

a postdoctoral research associate at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University in Rhode Island. But better known towns along the route such as Samarkand in ...