Two days after his headstone was removed from the Gur Emur mausoleum in Samarkand, the Nazis invaded Russia during Operation Barbarassa. Stalin, nervous and superstitious, ordered Timur's remains ...

was built at the time of Timur (Tamerlane), from 1389 to 1405. In this partly unfinished building, Persian master builders experimented with architectural and structural solutions later used in the ...

For five thousand miles the Silk Road ran all the way from China’s ancient capital, through Central Asia. It passed through mythical cities such as Samarkand or Persepolis until it reached the ...

Putin mentioned the plan at a meeting with Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China Li Zhanshu. "I hope we will [meet] with President Xi Jinping in Samarkand ...