What Samarkand doesn't tell you You arrive in Samarkand and the architecture does its work on you. The Registan is genuinely ...

The name ‘Silk Road’ evokes images of Marco Polo and endless camel caravans stretching from Beijing to Baghdad and on to the Venetian Lagoon. But the fact is there was no single, definitive trail.

Uzbekistan’s cultural gems are becoming more accessible with new trains. Here, how to see the Silk Road by rail. Maya Kachroo-Levine is the digital senior editor at Travel + Leisure. She covers hotels ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Little is known about the history of the settlement under Kyrgyzstan's largest lake (Vyacheslav OSELEDKO) The sun had barely risen ...

Beneath the waters of Lake Issyk-Kul in eastern Kyrgyzstan lie the remains of a city that once flourished along one of history’s great trading networks. The ancient settlement is believed to have sunk ...

The silkworm moth, whose caterpillars have been used in silk production since antiquity, may have been brought to southern Central Asia 4,000 years ago—nearly 2,000 years earlier than previously ...

TORU-AYGYR, Kyrgyzstan: The sun had barely risen, but diving volunteer Elizaveta Bodrova was already raring to plunge into the cold waters of Lake Issyk-Kul, where the ruins of a once-thriving city ...