In the great game of chess, Uzbekistan will be Indias rival in the foreseeable future. Young girls and grizzled men duel over ...

This thrilling, wide-ranging exhibition maps the complex connections among European and Asian civilizations from A.D. 500 to ...

The first phase of Singapore’s fifth zoological park will be launched at the Mandai Wildlife Reserve – an emerging ...

Instead of enjoying the stunning fountain, visitors are now tossing coins over a plastic barrier into a makeshift pool that ...

The cities were found in a mountainous region – it’s unusual for settlements of this time to be at such high altitudes ...

In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have identified two lost cities ...

Archaeologists detected signs of fortifications, roads, walls and guard towers in the ... the largest cities in Central Asia and a rival to Samarkand, the popular trade hub located about 70 ...

Preliminary excavation at one of Tugunbulak's fortified buildings - girded by thick earthen walls - yielded the remains ... regional 'breadbaskets' such as Samarkand," Frachetti said.

Because of their position between East and West Asia, the Central Asian cities of Samarkand and Bukhara served ... ultimately finding evidence of walls, roads and buildings. Just a small fraction ...