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

To get to Khiva, we fly to Urgench airport in western ... ‘He took care of the caravans travelling the Silk Road,’ our Uzbek Jules Verne tour guide Marat tells us. ‘Traders travelled at ...

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

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce ...

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 ...

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 ...

A survey has identified a "major" urban area in a mountainous area of Uzbekistan at an altitude of more than 6,000 feet.

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 ...

A city larger than many in Europe at the time was perched in the mountains.

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