On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce ...

Over 10 weeks, RFE/RL hosted discussions on Twitter Spaces on various issues that affect daily life in Central Asia. We looked at global issues -- from the COVID-19 pandemic to the war in Ukraine ...

“These would have been important urban hubs in central Asia ... “We could really change the map of urban development in medieval Asia,” he says in the statement. “The Silk Road wasn ...

Researchers have identified a "hugely significant" ancient battle site with the help of declassified U.S. spy satellite images. A team of archaeologists from the U.K.'s Durham University and Iraq's ...

Two high-altitude, medieval cities built by mobile herders along Silk Road trade routes in Central Asia have been hiding ... in the 8th century. Lidar maps of surface-level ridges in the soil ...

Thus, a combination of factors makes Central Asia – particularly resource-endowed Kazakhstan but also Uzbekistan and Tajikistan – the most viable alternative to traditional suppliers. Central Asian ...

A new book explores the legacy of an often-overlooked architectural style born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s capital.

He and his team would spend nearly a decade trying to map out the site ... comprehensive urban plans of any medieval city” in Central Asia situated at high altitude (defined here as about ...

Gone are the days of paying expensive roaming fees or getting new physical SIM cards whenever ... and Vietnam); and Central Asia (Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Uzbekistan).

Economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa and Caucasus and Central Asia regions is projected to strengthen in the near term, but only to the extent that current challenges abate. Ongoing ...

One of the Pentagon’s top generals is under investigation for allegedly getting physical ... News Digital. Central Command oversees troop operations in the Middle East and Asia, including ...

Readers reflect on the scars of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, waste management solutions for Hong Kong and the ticketing scramble for next year’s Coldplay show.