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

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Did you know 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,

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Incredible wedding today of my friend’s niece in Samarkand.

Here she is.

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Lesson in Madrassa. Around 1910 Photo by S. Prokudin-Gorsky Collection (Library of Congress archives.)

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