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Oxus River
Map of the Oxus' / Amu Darya's watershed in Central Asia, that drains parts of modern-day Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan into the Aral Sea.
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Head of Timur
Bronze bust by M. Gerasimov based on a facial reconstruction of the exhumed skull of Timur (1336-1405), also known as Tamerlane. Timur founded the Timurid Empire (1370-1507) which, based in Uzbekistan, spread across Central Asia.
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Coins from Macedonia and Sogdia Copying Alexander's Coinage
The State of Sogdia was conquered by the army of Alexander the Great in 327 BCE. The early coins from Sogdia copy the coins of Alexander's Empire, telling us that they were issued after the conquest...
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Vabkent Minaret
The minaret of Vabkent (or Vobkent), 1196-7 CE.
Location: Town of Vabkent north of Bukhar, Uzbekistan. Patron by Abd al-Aziz II.
Embellished by wide bands with high relief carving and crowned by a lantern at the top.
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Parthian Belt Ornament
Gold ornament showing an eagle with its prey, c. 1st- or 2nd-century CE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It is one of a pair, with the other on display in the British Museum, London. Ernst Herzfeld proposed that it...
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Folio from the Baburnama
Babur (1483-1540) who fled Ferghana in present day Uzbekistan to found the Mughal Empire in 1526, receives Uzbek and Rajput envoys. These envoys are offering their congratulations following Babur's accession to the throne...
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The Genius of their Age: Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost Enlightenment
A vibrant portrait of an age when Arabic enlightenment anticipated and inspired the European Renaissance, illuminated by its guiding figures and rivals, Ibn Sina and Biruni. In The...
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Iaxartes
The Iaxartes is a river, today-called Syr-Daria, which springs west of the Pamir Mountains in Fergana (in modern Kyrgyzstan), and flows through modern Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan to Lake Aral, covering a distance of 2212...
