Shakhrisabz: Uzbekistan's Silk Road Gem

If you visit Shakhrisabz in clear cloudless weather, it may seem that Shakhrisabz smoothly flows into the sky with the tops of its palaces and mausoleums.

Shakhrisabz, 2700 years old, was the capital of the ancient Sogdian state and was called Kesh. When Alexander the Great conquered it, the fame of this centre of culture and crafts thundered far beyond Sogd. In 1336, on April 9, in the village of Khoja Ilgar (...