The inaugural Bukhara Biennial will mark a pivotal moment in the country’s emergence as a contemporary art hub.

In this episode of Silk Road Adventures, we uncover Samarkand’s enduring legacy—where Silk Road traders once gathered, ...

Come September, the fashion crowd will be heading to the inaugural Bukhara Biennial, which will feature works by the likes of ...

Azerbaijan’s national air carrier, AZAL, will resume regular flights to Samarkand, Uzbekistan — one of the rare gems of the ...

Move over Ibiza. According to a recent study, more young travellers are abandoning boozy trips with their mates for enriching ...

Amongst these fabled-but-not-fictional locations is Samarkand, one of the oldest continuously inhabited ... It should therefore come as no surprise that this rich, ancient crossroads of world cultures ...

Bread is treated as a sacred staple in Uzbekistan. The BBC visits a bakery where 10,000 loaves of the fabled Samarkand bread are hand-rolled, individually stamped, and baked in a tandoor every day.

A 5th century wooden ‘stitched ship’ – recreated using ancient stitching techniques and constructed using coconut fiber stitching, traditional wooden joinery, coir rope and natural resins and powered ...

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago. During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...

But those experts may have a surprising new answer thanks to new research that shows the ancient people of the Philippines and ISEA may have mastered seafaring well before anyone else. Proving ...