The Uzbekistan government is on an ambitious tourism drive – but is sparring with heritage experts over how to protect its ...

The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic ...

ASTANA – The Jibek Joly (Silk Road in Kazakh) train offers a five-day adventure across Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan for the ...

I VIVIDLY remember my maiden trip to Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 2004. Arriving as a Member of our Parliament’s Lower House and coming from the tropical heat of Malaysia, I was utterly shocked to find ...

Uzbekistan, host of the upcoming 20th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP20) to the Convention on International ...

Brothers Mukhtarovs revived and established the production of the ancient Samarkand paper with use of technology, pre-advent paper machinery use. The main feature of this technology is manual labor, ...

Included in the finds were ancient stone hand axes that date back to as far as 1.5 million years ago. The ancient lake that has long been home to all of these hand axes offers a peak into the ...

This is believed to be the first ... Discovery of 'Punk' and 'Emo' Fossils Challenges Our Understanding of Ancient Molluscs Jan. 8, 2025 — Researchers have unearthed two fossils, named Punk and ...

Child: The ancient Egyptian civilisation began 5,000 years ago and lasted 3,000 years! It was located along the River Nile in north-east Africa. I better write this down! Oh! I’ve lost my pen.

Ancient Egyptian person: Well it’s not! We need to know exactly when the river will flood, so that we plant our crops at the right time. That way, we can take advantage of all the nutrients left ...