Over many centuries, a settlement on an oasis along the Silk Road grew into one of the world’s great metropolises. Ancient Merv was a nexus ... Visiting Turkmenistan requires advance planning ...

Located at critical junctures upon the Silk Road, Turkmenistan’s ancient cities of Nisa, Merv and Koneurgench tell the fascinating story of converging world history. Historic resting points for ...

To the south of present-day Turkmenistan ... Silk Road. So significant was it that not only did it become the capital of the Seljuk Empire, but during the 12th and early 13th centuries, it might have ...

Like the fabled Silk Road cities of Samarkand ... UNESCO credits the government of Turkmenistan with generally good conservation practises, and calls Merv, another listed settlement in the country ...

is offering an exciting and informative program to the oasis cities of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan accompanied by archaeologist and early Silk Road scholar, Dr. Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu. Highlights include ...

The State Historical and Cultural Park “Ancient Merv” is the oldest and most completely preserved of the oasis cities along the Silk Roads in Central Asia. It is located in the territory of Mary ...

And now, new international efforts are under way to protect the legacy of the Silk Road, from Turkmenistan to Kyrgyzstan. In Turkmenistan, the archeological treasures of Merv, a city by some estimates ...

The towering minaret and mausoleums of Konye-Urgench in isolated Turkmenistan cut striking forms against the desert sky, yet few foreign visitors make it to a site once at the center of the Islamic ...