Known as Tugunbulak and Tashbulak, the medieval centres were discovered in the Pamir mountains of eastern Uzbekistan. The discovery challenges long-held assumptions that Silk Road settlements ...

Some 17,000 people are working on the site which lies west of the capital Dushanbe, in the foothills of the Pamir Mountains. The site is already partially functioning but it is not known when ...

or De Wakhan Dehleez in Pashto – in the Pamir Mountains. Geographically this thin slice of land in the Badakhshan province (Afghanistan) is about 350 km long and 16 to 64 km wide. Wakhan or ...

Train conductor Airkir Duliki guides passengers to board the train orderly at a train station along the railway route linking Kashgar of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Chengdu ...

Martin Grajciar - MANOfactory Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, freeriding, ski mountaineering, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and ice climbing on all the ...

In a remote village in Tajikistan's soaring mountains, Muslikhiddin Makhmudzoda relies on a mobile phone to light his modest home as his family spends another winter without electricity. Makhmudzoda's ...