He and his team would spend nearly a decade trying to map out the site, as well as the one he ... the Central Asian cities of Samarkand and Bukhara served as important Silk Road hubs.

NARA--An eighth-century pantry unearthed in the ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand suggests the influence ... were discovered in the pantry. “The site was a key stop along the Silk Road ...

Ayaz Kala, archaeological site in Northern Uzbekistan Culture ... Discover dazzling Samarkand – the home to ancient sights, bustling city streets, and proud host of the 2023 UNWTO General ...

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

For travellers, the so-called “Stans”, and cities like Samarkand and Almaty, have magnetic appeal. The ancient silk industry ... offering devotion to holy sites on other continents, to ...

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

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

Silvia is at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World ... found in what is called the Pamir Knot — a site of intersecting ranges of high mountains. After a few years ...

Though many significant treasures were demolished by the Bolsheviks, Uzbekistan still has much to discover – Khiva, Bukhara and Samarkand are all UNESCO World Heritage Sites. There are ...

Ancient highland ... towns along the route such as Samarkand in Uzbekistan and Kashgar in China, were situated in vast agricultural oases. “High-altitude urban sites are extraordinarily rare ...