A landlocked country in central Asia is home to some of the world's most beautiful lakes but is the furthest nation from any ...

A pair of lost cities in the highlands of Uzbekistan recently found by archaeologists using ... over a slice of Central Asia ...

V iewed from space, the western edge of the Sahara Desert looks like another world. Its abundance of red-tinged sand turns ...

Mr. Jeff, would you like to ride a camel?,” my guide Ikram asked while waiting outside my yurt. Oh goodness, I thought to ...

The expansive exhibition, on view through February 23, looks at how commerce, ideas, and religion crisscrossed the world.

NPR's Above the Fray international reporting fellow, Valerie Kipnis, reports from the Uzbekistan town of Termez. VALERIE KIPNIS, BYLINE: Kamoliddin Kosimov looks out across his cotton fields towards ...

reports from the Uzbekistan town of Termez. VALERIE KIPNIS, BYLINE: Kamoliddin Kosimov looks out across his cotton fields towards the endless Afghan desert. His 175-acre farm sits near the border ...

Once one of the worlds largest inland lakes, Asia's Aral Sea has evaporated into desert, dried by Soviet era irrigation plans. One village in Kazakhstan sits on the shrinking shores of the Aral Sea.

A city larger than many in Europe at the time was perched in the mountains.

Parties loyal to Uzbekistan’s president have swept parliament seats in an election devoid of any real opposition in the tightly-controlled Central Asian country Parties loyal to Uzbekistan's ...

That is a paraphrase of a lengthy warning sign posted by the Canyonlands National Park at the beginning of our desert bike-packing adventure on the White Rim Trail. The Idaho State Journal invites ...