The Iron Silk Road will launch a new chapter in the history of the Caucasus. After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the newly independent republics of the southern Caucasus—Georgia ...

Which areas did you visit? I went to Uzbekistan in 1993. My home base was Tashkent, largest city on the old Southern Silk Road, and I visited the high, mountain-ringed Ferghana Valley, which was ...

Indians and Arabs traded along the southern sea routes, and in the 16th century Portuguese and other Europeans sailed to East Asia. Many important scientific and technological innovations migrated ...

The Silk Road, a network of trade routes connecting ... This complex was associated with people who lived in southern Central Asia during the Middle Bronze Age, around 2000 to 1500 BCE.

The city, now the country’s capital, was long a stopping place for camel caravans plying the Silk Road. And where is the Qizilqum? Stretching from parts of Kazakhstan to southern Uzbekistan ...

Dashiban has also become a hot spot for senior travelers seeking extended stays. Beijing native Liu Meiqing, who began ...

Even today, silk is something of a luxury, so it is not difficult to imagine the awe it must have inspired when it was ...