Central Asia through the currents of history, the legacy of empires, the crossroads of ideas and trade routes, and the formation of identities.
Two Thousand Years of Peace Treaties from the Xiongnu to the Kazakh Khanate
Travel blogging 178 years ago: the diaries of British travelers the Atkinsons, who spent seven years in the Kazakh Steppe
How Nomads from Central Asia Changed the Medieval Middle East
The Turbulent Story of the National-Territorial Delimitation of 1924
Historian Richard Foltz on the alliance that built the Silk Road — and was somehow forgotten
How the Syr Darya Corridor Once Connected China to the Golden Horde
Qalam’s Curated History Reading List
Daniel Scarborough on Orthodoxy, Islam, and Imperial Power in Turkestan
How Imperial Russia’s failure to understand the ways of Kazakh life exposed the cracks in its own power
Guess what this thing was used for.
From Ancient Rituals to Modern Technology: How Copper Became an Essential Part of Nomadic Culture
British Encounters with Early Industrialization in the Kazakh Steppe
Central Asia During the Russian Revolution (1917–18)
