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Central Asia

Soviet Kazakhstan

TAILOR-MADE

How the Soviet Union Invented the Kazakh National Costume

~ 19 min read
A flavour of history

QURT AMONG THE NOMADS

The Anatomy of the Steppe’s Ultimate Superfood

~ 9 min read
Central Asia

LOVE OR POLITICS?

Part 2: Mixed Marriages in the Kazakh Khanate

~ 11 min read
East

Asia Rising

Professor Kishore Mahbubani on Why the Past 200 years Are a Historical Aberration

~ 5 min read
Central Asia

LOVE OR POLITICS?

Part 1: How Mixed Marriages Shaped States and Altered History Through the Ages

~ 8 min read
Central Asia

Lost Greeks, Hidden Kingdoms, and Forgotten Worlds

How a Seventeenth-Century Utopia Sparked a Literary Obsession with Central Asia

~ 17 min read
Central Asia

From Samarkand to the Stars

Ulugh Beg and the Rise of Planetary Science in Central Asia

~ 11 min read
Central Asia

Sogdians on the Silk Road

Merchants, Missionaries, and the Spread of Religions across Eurasia

~ 12 min read
Central Asia

Fasting (Oraza) among Nineteenth-Century Kazakhs

Notes from Russian Travelers

~ 4 min read
Hieronymus Bosch. The Temptation of St. Anthony. 1500-1510 / Wikimedia Commons

What is this?

Guess what this thing was used for.
Central Asia

The Byzantine Wives of Mongol Khans

The Story of How Women Saved an Empire

~ 14 min read
Central Asia

BESHBARMAK AT THE COURT OF AMIR TIMUR?

A Protein Boost in the Description of a Spanish Traveler

~ 4 min read
Central Asia

ON THE KAZAKHS OF BUKHARA

The Travel Notes of Arminius Vámbéry

~ 3 min read

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