Euronews visits Turkistan, the holy city of Asian Muslims and UNESCO’s cultural site with its ancient streets, a 14th century ...

A ruler of the Timurid Empire and the grandson of Amir Timur, this Uzbek sultan became a world-renowned scholar, leaving a profound impact on the development of the region now known as Uzbekistan ...

Written in 1406 and preserved in the National Library, it is titled Embassy to Tamerlane and recounts how Clavijo traveled across Central Asia to seek an ally against the Ottomans in the ruler of the ...

Herat was the former capital of the Timurid Empire, which at its height spanned from Baghdad in the west to Delhi in the east. Today, only a handful of artisans are skilled in crafting these tiles ...

From the 14th century onwards, Samarkand began to flourish in earnest under control of the great Turkic-Mongol warlord Timur, also known as Tamerlane, the founder of the Timurid Empire.

Herat was the former capital of the Timurid Empire, which at its height spanned from Baghdad in the west to Delhi in the east. Today, only a handful of artisans are skilled in crafting these tiles, ...