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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Along the Great Silk Road the shadows of predator and ... but also perfected algebra. In Turkmenistan the ancient city of Merv, said to be one of the largest cities in the world at the time ...

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 ...

MARY, TURKMENISTAN—Turkmenistan is preparing ... The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Merv, a city on the Silk Road, was founded some 2,500 years ago and sacked by the Mongols in 1221.

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 centre of the Islamic ...

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 ...