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The New Silk Roads:
Belt & Road Initiative + Greater Eurasian Partnership transport corridors Map
I couldn't find a decent BRI map on the internet so I decided to make one of my own, a globe view centered on Samarkand.
https://t.co/bvqlc34fyo
Did you know #Hepthalites had a strange belief that an artificially deformed head was a symbol of high status, achieved by binding the head during infancy?
Sogdian clay ossuary and deformed skulls. Seventh-eight century. Afrasiab Museum, #Samarkand.
#Khorasan
Incredible wedding today of my friend’s niece in Samarkand.
Here she is.
Lesson in Madrassa. #Samarkand. #Uzbekistan Around 1910 Photo by S. Prokudin-Gorsky Collection (Library of Congress archives.)