Search places, or jump to a section
Tagssamarkand
4 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Archaeological wonder
Timurid 1420–1449 · Timurid / Islamic Golden Age science
Timurid astronomical observatory (1420–1429) built by Muhammad Taragay Ulugbek, grandson of Timur, housing 40 m radius sextant embedded in 30 m hill-rock and 11 m underground to measure solar…
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Buried city
Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Afrasiab — Buried Palace Fresco North (Samarkand, Ancillary) in Samarkand, Afrasiab Buried, Uzbekistan is a Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) buried …
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Achaemenid to Mongol (c.500 BCE–1220 CE, Sogdian peak 6th–8th cent CE) · Sogdian / Kushan / Islamic
Ancient Samarkand (Maracanda) — 220 ha Sogdian walled plateau with 7th-century Afrasiab murals of Eurasian envoys.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Samarkand — Afrasiab Palace Fresco Hall North in Samarkand, Afrasiab, Uzbekistan is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to …
