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

Tugunbulak could have housed as many as 5,000 residents with the only source of food being pastured animals or what could be ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Two cities lost for centuries have been uncovered by archaeologists in Uzbekistan along the Silk Road in a discovery that ...

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 ...

Lost for centuries, two cities lay buried, nearly 5 kilometers (3 miles) apart, underneath grassy pastures in the mountains of Uzbekistan. Now, archaeologists for the first time have ...