Recent discoveries by leading international archaeologists and researchers have helped to shed new light on the complex cultural heritage landscape of ancient AlUla and the wider north-west Arabia region. The findings, presented in the new book ‘Revealing Cultural Landscapes in North-West Arabia’ Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, vol. 51’, are…
Uzbekistan: Samarkand Reborn with the largest complex for tourists in Central Asia
Silk Road Samarkand opens as the largest tourism complex in Central Asia. There isn’t another tourist resort in the world which can boast having China’s Xi Jinping, Turkey’s Recep Erdogan, and India’s Narendra Modi, plus another dozen heads of state, as guests in its very first week. But Silk Road Samarkand is no ordinary resort,…
