From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the ...

Bread is treated as a sacred staple in Uzbekistan. The BBC visits a bakery where 10,000 loaves of the fabled Samarkand bread are hand-rolled, individually stamped, and baked in a tandoor every day.

The lunar crater Ulugh Beg. Credit: James Stubbey / Wikimedia Commons Samarkand became the astronomical capital of the world, an even greater merit considering that the telescope hadn’t yet been ...

An exhibition at the Arab World Institute showcases many unique Uzbek artworks produced between the 19th and 20th centuries ...