The Sygnak Settlement / UNESCO IICAS

Mughal Warriors on a Falcon Hunt / Wikimedia Commons

Battle of Merv. Fresco in the Chehel Sotoun Palace. Isfahan, Iran. 17th century / Wikimedia Commons

Aerial of Saray-Juk ancient settlement on the Zhaiyk (Ural) River, Atyrau, Kazakhstan/Alamy

Kazakh Khanate at the beginning of the 16th century (1518) under Kasym/Wikimedia Commons

Carlo Bossoli. View of the Khan's Palace of Bakhchysarai on the Crimean Peninsula. 1857/Wikimedia Commons

Moghul embassy, seen by the Dutch visitors in Beijing in 1656/Wikimedia Commons

Alexey Kivshenko. The surrender of Kazan to Ivan the Terrible in 1552/Wikimedia Commons

Kazakh Sultan and Kazakh warrior-standard-bearer in the service of the Shibanids of Maverannahr. Second half of the 16th century. Reconstruction by L.A. Bobrova/Wikimedia Commons

Khan of Bukhara from the Ashtarkhanid Dynasty. From the Tsar’s Titulary. 1672 / Wikimedia Commons

View of the ruined site the Yesim Khan mausoleum in Turkestan, Kazakhstan/Alamy

16th century old Madrasah in Tashkent/Alamy

Huang Qing Zhigong Tu. Torghaut kalmyk people/Wikimedia Commons

Dorbet (Choros) delegation to the camp of the Chinese Qianlong Emperor in the Chengde Mountain Resort in 1754/Wikimedia Commons

This is a photo of an Oirat caravan/Wikimedia Commons

Nogai warrior. 1830s/Wikimedia Commons