If there’s one thing the recent BRICS summit in Kazan revealed, it’s that when you divide the world into the West and the ...

A new book explores the legacy of an often-overlooked architectural style born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s capital.

Vladimir Putin is feeling the strain of Ukraine’s vigorous defense, neighboring nations chafing under Moscow’s influence, and ...

The expansive exhibition, on view through February 23, looks at how commerce, ideas, and religion crisscrossed the world.

Crown Heights resident Mrs. Shaindel Fogelman recalls the first thing she did after buying her home and why "I can't believe ...

The settlements, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, are among the largest ever documented in the mountainous parts of the Silk Road, ...

Nor was China, the alleged terminus of the Silk Roads in most versions of its conception, ever the main destination of ...

Abdullaev became a jobless poet who lived in modesty verging on poverty, but frequently travelled to literary festivals in the former Soviet Union, Europe and the United States. Like hundreds of ...

The findings also complicate the prevailing image of the Silk Road, which facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas among ...

This was the question friends asked when I told them I was travelling to Uzbekistan, a former Soviet republic sandwiched between Russia, China, and a host of fellow ‘Stans’. I had many answers ...

Two medieval cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan were bustling centers of Silk Road trade between China, Arabia and Europe. Researchers have now mapped the cities using drone-borne LiDAR.In a ...

US and Uzbekistan-based researchers used drone-based ... been constructed around 1000 CE during the time of the Qarakhanid Empire. The cities went into decline and disappeared sometime before ...