The Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation has announced that the inaugural Bukhara Biennial will debut in the ancient Uzbekistan city on September 5, 2025. This first edition, titled ...

Palov, plov, pulao, pilaf or pilau. With as many name variations as recipes, this defining Uzbekistan rice dish and its regional iterations have historically been the core of culinary legacies across ...

A contemporary Indian traveller to the fabled Silk Route city of Bukhara is more than likely to be reminded by locals about the time when traders from the Indian subcontinent called the city home. For ...

Bukhara once flourished as a Silk Road hub, where travelling poets, merchants and scholars converged. But under Soviet rule during the 20th century, the Uzbekistani city was for decades sealed off ...

Bukhara, which is situated on the Silk Route, is more than 2,000 years old. It is the most complete example of a medieval city in Central Asia, with an urban fabric that has remained largely intact.

BUKHARA — You could have heard a pin drop as a small group of men (and two women) gathered on a recent Friday night inside the 300-year-old synagogue of Bukhara, Uzbekistan, on what was once the Silk ...

The first conquest of the historical Bukhara city by the Muslims was in 674 by the governor of Khorasan, Ubeydullah Bin Ziyad. But only 30 years later, the Islamic ruling of the city was achieved.

A community with a history stretching back millenniums is steadily running out of living members in the Uzbek city The ancient Silk Road city of Bukhara has two synagogues, a primary school that ...

The Mughals sure did know how to enjoy their food; their cuisine was rich and used aromatic spices, dry fruits and nuts to give it that royal feel that we know of today. Many of our occasions are ...