The history of the Tashkent oasis goes back to ancient times. Traces of Stone Age and Bronze Age settlements, rock carvings, numerous burial mounds, and ruins of ancient fortresses were found here.

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A Singapore-based company took a controlling stake in the Hotel Uzbekistan in Tashkent in 2020, a sign of the city’s increasing appeal to tourists. (Photo by Yuri Korsuntsev/AFP via Getty Images) ...

In August 1949, the defeat of the Democratic Army at the Battle of Grammos marked the end of a war that divided Greece and ...

Valeriy Shustov/RIA Novosti The famous Tashkent Declaration, mediated by the Soviet Union, was signed 50 years ago, ending hostilities between India and Pakistan. The 50th anniversary of the Tashkent ...

Visiting Central Asia had been on my bucket list for quite a while. So when I finally got the chance to head to Kazakhstan, I decided to take a pit-stop on my way there. This is how I got to Tashkent, ...

Tashkent’s street food reflects the long culinary history of Central Asia shaped by trade routes of the historic Silk Road ...

Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation will hold the inaugural conference to preserve modernist architecture in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The “Where in the World is Tashkent” conference will be ...

“Gagarin was here once!” declares Ira proudly, as she takes me through the apartment block where she works in central Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. Ira, a lady in her 50s, is the concierge at ...