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

Today, the Central Asian country is considered an unusual, “off the beaten road” holiday destination for westerners, but for ...

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

When Silk Road trade reached its peak between the 3rd ... Russia as well as in the Khanates of Khiva and Bukhara, which received nearly 200 tonnes of Margilan silk carried by 1000 camels in ...

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 ...

In Khiva we watched awestruck as a family of local ... of six friends in their 60s who we keep bumping into along the Silk Road path. ‘People said to me, why the hell are you going there ...

Trade must have been crucial for the success of this Silk Road community. Read the paper: Large-scale medieval urbanism traced by UAV–lidar in highland Central Asia During the heyday of the ...

“It’s a really different environment up there,” Frachetti said of the newly discovered Silk Road settlements. “It’s winter there already. It’s freezing cold. We get snow in summer.

Oct 23 (Reuters) - In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have identified two lost cities that thrived along the fabled Silk Road trade route ...