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On the Silk Road, Traces of Once Bustling Intercontinental Trade
A new book of photographs captures the landscapes, buildings and faces along the route that once conveyed untold wealth ...
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Central Asian Fighters and Global Jihad
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150,000-year-old rock-shelter in Tajikistan found on 'key route for human expansion' used by Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans
Ancient humans weren't the only individuals who enjoyed this region. The river valley would eventually become a major route on the Silk Road, connecting civilizations like China and the Roman ...
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Tajikistan and the Taliban - The National Interest
Tajikistan sits on the far end of this spectrum as the most firmly anti-Taliban Central Asian country. President Emomali Rahmon’s government believes that the IEA constitutes an illegitimate regime.
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This ancient Silk Road town was almost lost to time
(In Tajikistan, discover the ruins of a once mighty Silk Road kingdom. Hedin poses alongside a Bactrian camel during an expedition through Central Asia around 1900.
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Finding “Peace, If Not Paradise” Along the Silk Road, Aboard the
On the 'Golden Eagle' train in Central Asia, writer Maggie Shipstead follows the historic Silk Road and witnesses, in some small way, its modern equivalent.