Founded in around 700 BCE, Samarkand is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Here’s what visitors heading to this Uzbekistan city can expect.

At the International Forum “The Spiritual Heritage and Cultural Expression of the Islamic World: Calligraphy, Music, Poetry and Solidarity” in Samarkand, a solemn ceremony was held to hand over a ...

He teaches poetry at Saint Mary’s College of California and is editor at large at Wave Books. Robert Hass, a former poet laureate of the United States, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for his ...

At first glance, the turquoise domes and gleaming surfaces of Samarkand’s Bibi Khanym Mosque represent everything a visitor, yearning to glimpse the history of this famous Silk Road city in ...

Samarkand was a major Silk Road trading hub for more than 2,500 years. Now, the Uzbek city has a major new tourism complex, which it hopes will reflect its former glories.