In recent years, Uzbekistan has embarked on an ambitious nationwide tourism boom transforming much of the country. But its ...

These traders had to eat on the go, and the foods they brought with them were the ancient-world equivalent of instant ramen and camp chili: easy to transport, quick to cook in large batches over a ...

Off the beaten path, where ancient civilizations were born, among honey-colored sculpted mountains and where small birds ...

The five ‘Stans’, independent nations since 1991, are influenced by their neighbours, but distinctive and fascinating.

My expectations of seeing everything I had researched about one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world - it was founded in 700 B.C. by the greatest traders of the old Silk Road, the Sogdians ...

As investigators pored through the old Silk Road message boards, former customers feared that more arrests were coming — and more turncoats would emerge. Mike Gogulski, a political activist and ...

Check out our 52 Places to Go in 2023. A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 4, 2023, Section C, Page 9 of the New York edition with the headline: Where the Silk Road Meets the Stone Age.

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And underneath it, 3,000-year-old mummies are buried in forgotten graves along abandoned traces of the Silk Road. This road is our excuse for traveling here.